Preconceived

Examples

• Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The day will come when this will be given as a curious illustration of the blindness of preconceived opinion. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Never perhaps, as she had preconceived them; but somehow--still somehow. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She began moulding the wax; and it was evident from her manner of manipulation that she was endeavouring to give it some preconceived form. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But the honest thing to do would have been to look for that cure without preconceived notions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Jane's alertness in moving, proved her as ready as her aunt had preconceived. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It was the irruption into the mind of the things as they really were, free from the veil cast over them by preconceived ideas. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We have had economists who set out with the preconceived idea of justifying the factory system. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Where preconceived theory was at variance with observed facts, the former must of course give way. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Idols are set up to which all the living must bow; we decide beforehand that things must fit a few preconceived ideas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Let no one imagine that I take the four preconceived ideas of the Commission too seriously. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Typist: Sol