prejudice

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1. prejudice - Noun

2. prejudice - Adjective

3. prejudice - Verb

Meaning

Foresight.

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.

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

Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.

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.

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.

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Prejudice is the child of ignorance. William Hazlitt

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. W. C. Fields

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. Arthur Schopenhauer

The strictness of the teacher is better to bear than the prejudice of the father. Persian Proverb

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. Jewish Proverb

Whose interest was it? To whose prejudice was it? Latin Proverb

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