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Parti pris   /pˈɑrti prɪs/   Listen
Parti pris

noun
1.
An opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence.  Synonyms: preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, preconception, prepossession.





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"Parti pris" Quotes from Famous Books



... pour varier. Des gens de l'autre monde. However, I will tell my husband. He knows all sorts of people. I will tell him. You explain it to him, for he never understands me. No matter what I may say, he always says that he cannot understand me. C'est un parti pris. Everybody understands, only he does ...
— The Awakening - The Resurrection • Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
... romance, as distinguished from the novel, I would even encourage the writing, though it is one of the hard conditions of romance that its personages starting with a 'parti pris' can rarely be characters with a living growth, but are apt to be types, limited to the expression of one principle, simple, elemental, lacking the God-given complexity of motive which we find in all the human ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


Words linked to "Parti pris" :   view, preconceived idea, sentiment, opinion, persuasion, thought


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