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Prejudice

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(1):

(n.) Foresight.

(2):

(n.) An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge.

(3):

(n.) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.

(4):

(n.) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.

(5):

(n.) To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.

(6):

(n.) To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Prejudice'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/prejudice.html. 1828.
 
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