Preconceive
[,priːkən'siːv]
Definition
(v. t.) To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.
Edited by Albert
Definition
v.t. to conceive or form a notion of before having actual knowledge.—ns. Preconceit′ a preconceived notion; Preconcep′tion act of preconceiving: previous opinion formed without actual knowledge.
Typist: Ludwig
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.
Editor: Luke