Prejudice definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PREJ'UDICE, n. [L. prejudicium ... our prejudices are unreasonable. A judge should disabuse himself of prejudice in favor of either party in a suit. My comfort is that their manifest prejudice to my cause will render their judgment of less authority ... against any person or thing; prepossession. There is an unaccountable prejudice to projectors of all kinds. 3. Mischief; hurt; damage; injury. Violent factions are a prejudice to the authority of the sovereign. How plain this abuse is, and what prejudice it does to the understanding of the sacred Scriptures. [ ...
... warp; to give a particular direction to the mind; to prejudice; to prepossess. The judgment is often biassed by interest. This ... prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation [syn: bias, prejudice, preconception] 2: a line or cut across a fabric that ... temperament or outlook; especially a personal and sometimes unreasoned judgment ; prejudice c. an instance of such prejudice d. (1) deviation of the expected value of a statistical ... n. 1 (often foll. by towards, against) a predisposition or prejudice. 2 Statistics a systematic distortion of a statistical result due ... biassed, biassing) 1 (esp. as biased adj.) influence (usu. unfairly); prejudice. 2 give a bias to. Phrases and idioms: bias ...
... so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice. A mind prepossessed with opinions favorable to a person or ... Prepossess is more frequently used in a good sense than prejudice. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: possess beforehand 2 ... prepossessing appearance" 4: influence (somebody's) opinion in advance [syn: prejudice, prepossess] Merriam Webster's transitive verb Date: 1614 1. obsolete ... feeling, etc.) take possession of (a person); imbue. 2 a prejudice (usu. favourably and spontaneously). b (as prepossessing adj.) attractive, appealing ... so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything ... v. a. 1. Preoccupy, have prior possession of. 2. Bias, prejudice, give previous inclination to for or against. Moby Thesaurus ...
... Webster's adjective Date: 1579 resulting from or having a prejudice or bias for or especially against Webster's 1913 Dictionary Prejudice Prej"u*dice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prejudiced; p ... pr. & vb. n. Prejudicing.] [Cf. F. pr['e]judicier. See Prejudice, n.] 1. To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination ... one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman. Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other ...
Prejudicing definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Prejudice Prej"u*dice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prejudiced; p ... pr. & vb. n. Prejudicing.] [Cf. F. pr['e]judicier. See Prejudice, n.] 1. To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination ... one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman. Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning ... to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause. Seek how may prejudice the foe. --Shak
racism definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members ... produce an inherent superiority of a particular race 2. racial prejudice or discrimination • racist noun or adjective Oxford Reference Dictionary n ... a a belief in the superiority of a particular race; prejudice based on this. b antagonism towards other races, esp. as ... black supremacy, chauvinism, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, color bar, color line, despitefulness, detestation, discrimination, dislike ... illiberality, know-nothingism, loathing, male chauvinist, malevolence, malice, malignity, minority prejudice, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, odium, one-sidedness, partiality, prejudice, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racialism, ...
... treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice [syn: discrimination, favoritism, favouritism] 2: the cognitive process whereby two ... adjective Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 unfavourable treatment based on prejudice, esp. regarding race, colour, or sex. 2 good taste or ... taste, civilizedness, clarity, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, classicalism, classicism, clearness, color bar, color line, comeliness ... keenness, know-nothingism, leaning, limpidity, lucidity, male chauvinist, meticulousness, minority prejudice, modification, naturalness, neatness, nepotism, niceness, nicety, one-sidedness, parti pris ... plainness, policy, polish, polity, preciseness, precisianism, precision, preference, preferential treatment, prejudice, priggishness, propriety, providence, prudence, prudentialism, prudishness, punctilio, punctiliousness, purism, puritanism, purity, quality, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racialism, racism, red-baiting, refinement, ...
... loss or injury may be sustained. Hence, 3. Loss; injury; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good; as, to ... to disadvantage. DISADVANTAGE, v.t. To injure in interest; to prejudice. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the quality of ... faction henceforward acted at disadvantage. --Palfrey. 2. Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good. They would ... 1. Unfavorableness, disadvantageousness, inconvenience. 2. Injury, loss, damage, detriment, disservice, prejudice, hurt, drawback, harm. Moby Thesaurus abuse, ado, afflict, aggrieve, annoyance ... penalty, persecute, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, problem, put out, put to inconvenience, put to trouble, savage ...
... dice, v. t. To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice. The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul. --Ld. Lytton. Collin ... one-sidedness, pain, paralysis, partialism, partiality, partisanship, preconception, predilection, prejudgment, prejudice, prejudice against, prejudice the issue, prepossess, prepossession, pruritus, rash, rheum, sallow, sallowness, sclerosis ...
... noun Etymology: 1sex + -ism (as in racism) Date: 1968 1. prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially discrimination against women 2 ... on sex • sexist adjective or noun Oxford Reference Dictionary n. prejudice or discrimination, esp. against women, on the grounds of sex ... black supremacy, chauvinism, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, color bar, color line, discrimination, fascism, know-nothingism, male chauvinist, minority prejudice, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racialism, racism, red-baiting, segregation, sex ...
... used in a good sense; sometimes it is equivalent to prejudice, and sometimes a softer name for it. In general, it conveys an idea less odious than prejudice; as the prepossessions of education. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005 ... prior possession 2. an attitude, belief, or impression formed beforehand ; prejudice 3. an exclusive concern with one idea or object ; preoccupation ... 2. Bias, one-sidedness, bent, preconceived opinion, inclination, preconception, prejudgment, prejudice. Moby Thesaurus adoption, adverse possession, affinity, alodium, appropriation, arrogation, assumption ... preconclusion, preconsideration, predecision, predetermination, predilection, predisposition, preemption, preference, prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice, premature judgment, prenotion, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prescription, presumption, presupposal, presupposition, presurmise ...
... Webster's 1828 Dictionary UNBI'ASED, pp. 1. Freed from prejudice or bias. 2. a. Free from any undue partiality or prejudice; impartial; as an unbiased mind; unbiased opinion or decision. WordNet ... Date: 1607 1. free from bias; especially free from all prejudice and favoritism ; eminently fair < an unbiased opinion > 2. having an ... bi"ased, a. [Pref. un- + biased.] Free from bias or prejudice; unprejudiced; impartial. -- Un*bi"ased*ness, n. Collin's Cobuild ...
... warmth in favor of a party, sect or opinion; excessive prejudice. 1. The practice or tenet of a bigot. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot [syn: bigotry, dogmatism] Merriam Webster's noun ... deplored religious bigotry. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Prejudice, intolerance, blind zeal, obstinacy, opiniativeness, dogmatism, zealotry, fanaticism. Moby Thesaurus ... perfervidness, perseverance, pertinacity, pettiness, petty mind, pigheadedness, positiveness, positivism, precisianism, prejudice, provincialism, purblindness, purism, puritanicalness, puritanism, rabidness, race hatred, racism, repugnance ...
... Date: 1742 an established preference for something Synonyms: predilection, prepossession, prejudice, bias mean an attitude of mind that predisposes one to ... judgment of anything counter to it < a prepossession against technology >. prejudice usually implies an unfavorable prepossession and connotes a feeling rooted in suspicion, fear, or intolerance < a mindless prejudice against the unfamiliar >. bias implies an unreasoned and unfair distortion ... preapprehension, preconception, preconclusion, preconsideration, predecision, predetermination, predisposition, preference, prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice, premature judgment, prenotion, prepossession, presumption, presupposal, presupposition, presurmise, probability, proclivity ...