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Webster 1913 Edition
Prepossessing
Preˊpos-sess′ing
,Adj.
Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive;
– as, a
. prepossessing
mannerPreˊpos-sess′ing-ly
, adv.
Webster 1828 Edition
Prepossessing
PREPOSSESS'ING
,ppr.
1.
a. Tending to invite favor; having power to secure the possession of favor, esteem or love. The countenance, address and manners of a person are sometimes prepossessing on a first acquaintance.Definition 2024
prepossessing
prepossessing
English
Adjective
prepossessing (not comparable)
- Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.
- 1836, Dickens, Sketches by Boz, The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain
- Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young-lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.
- 1852, H. B. Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, chapter 2
- These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.
- 1836, Dickens, Sketches by Boz, The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain
Translations
tending to invite favour; attractive
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References
- prepossessing in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913