PREJUDICE


Meaning of PREJUDICE in English

noun foresight.

2. prejudice ·noun mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.

3. prejudice ·noun a bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.

4. prejudice ·noun 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.

5. prejudice ·noun 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.

6. prejudice ·noun 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.

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