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prejudication - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun Roman law : A preceding judgment, sentence, or decision; a precedent.noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun noun noun
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noun judgment without due examination of facts and evidence noun law A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute .noun treatment and decision of a point ; a precedent .
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Global Voices in English » Taiwan: Response to Ex-President’s Life Sentence 2009
The clerk observed, that there was an evident prejudication , which confirmed the former suspicion of a conspiracy against the life of
The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004
Nevertheless, in a certain degree, we are all introduced to our religious studies under this prejudication .
Evidence of Christianity William Paley 1774
The clerk observed, that there was an evident prejudication , which confirmed the former suspicion of a conspiracy against the life of Captain Oakum; for, because, how could Morgan so positively pronounce that the captain and surgeon would d-- n'd, unless he had intention to make away with them before they could have time to repent?
The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1746
That Lords and Commons fhould have joined to - gether in votes of prejudication — that Minifteni
The rights of nature against the usurpations of the establishments a series of letters to the people of Britain on the state of public affairs and the recent effusions of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 1796
It is desirable further to observe, that the only reason why I publish this edition anonymously is because I feel very strongly that, in matters of the kind with which the present essay deals, opinions and arguments should be allowed to produce the exact degree of influence to which as opinions and arguments they are entitled: they should be permitted to stand upon their own intrinsic merits alone, and quite beyond the shadow of that unfair prejudication which cannot but arise so soon as their author's authority, or absence of authority, becomes known.
A Candid Examination of Theism George John Romanes 1871
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