prejudice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛd͡ʒədɪs/
Forms: form: prejudices
form: præjudice
form: p͛judice
Etymology: From Middle English prejudice, from Old French prejudice, derived from Latin praeiūdicium (“previous judgment or damage”), from prae- (“before”) + iūdicium (“judgment”).
Senses: examples: text: Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
examples: text: Morality is but a prejudice.
glosses: A preconception, any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.
examples: text: I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
text: "I did not thoroughly understand what you were telling your brother," cried Emma, "about your friend Mr. Graham's intending to have a bailiff from Scotland, to look after his new estate. But will it answer? Will not the old prejudice be too strong?"
ref: 1816, Jane Austen, Emma:
glosses: An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.
examples: text: […] the first did in the forepart sit, / That nought mote hinder his quicke preiudize: / He had a sharpe foresight, and working wit […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Knowledge formed in advance; foresight, presaging.
examples: text: England and France might, through their amity, / Breed him some prejudice.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: For Pens, so usefull for Scholars to note the remarkables they read, with an impression easily deleble without prejudice to the Book.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
text: for no injury is thereby done to any one, no prejudice to another man's goods
ref: 1702, John Locke, translated by W. Popple, A Letter concerning Toleration […] :
text: We both of us happen’d to know, as well as the Stationer, that Riddlesden the Attorney, was a very Knave. He had half ruin’d Miss Read’s Father by drawing him in to be bound for him. By his Letter it appear’d, there was a secret Scheme on foot to the Prejudice of Hamilton, (Suppos’d to be then coming over with us,) and that Keith was concern’d in it with Riddlesden. [...]
ref: 1793, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, §20:
glosses: Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
Synonyms: word: bigotry
word: bias
word: chauvinism
word: clannishness
word: discrimination
word: inequality
word: inequity
word: intolerance
word: jaundiced eye
word: narrow-mindedness
word: one-sidedness
word: partisanship
Hypernyms: word: anger
word: fear
word: hatred
word: inclination
word: partiality
word: preference
word: unfairness
word: resentment
Hyponyms: word: ableism
word: ageism
word: alphabetism
word: antidentite
word: aporophobia
word: bodyism
word: breedism
word: casteism
word: childism
word: cissexism
word: clannism
word: classism
word: clonism
word: colorism
word: fursecution
word: handism
word: heightism
word: homophobia
word: languagism
word: linguicism
word: linguism
word: lookism
word: parentism
word: racism
word: rankism
word: religism
word: rockism
word: sexism
word: sexualism
word: singlism
word: sizeism
word: speciesism
word: transphobia
word: voicism
word: xenophobia
word: youthism
Derived terms: antiprejudice
biprejudice
counterprejudice
disprejudice
extreme prejudice
heteroprejudice
homoprejudice
in prejudice of
postjudice
prejudiceless
prejudicer
prejudicious
self-prejudice
terminate with extreme prejudice
to the prejudice of
transprejudice
unprejudice
without prejudice
with prejudice
Related terms: word: misprejudiced
word: prejudge
word: prejudicate
word: inferiority
word: superiority
word: apartheid
word: ethnic cleansing
word: holocaust
word: Inquisition
word: persecution
word: pogrom
word: purge
word: bigoted