preconceived

How To Use preconceived In A Sentence

• You must judge each film on its own merits, without any preconceived notions about what it's like.
• He had a preconceived notion of what a messiah should be like. Christianity Today
• It's been my experience that life is so constructed that the event cannot and will not live up to preconceived idea I have about it.
• They have the effect of jarring your preconceived notions. Times, Sunday Times
• Preconceived notions are prejudices about what is supposed to happen during the ritual, or the way in which the ritual must be done.
• They abound in matters of interest to the investigator of masonic symbolism and philosophy, but should be read with a careful view of the preconceived theory of the learned author, who refers everything in the ancient religions to the influences of the Noachic cataclysm, and the arkite worship which he supposes to have resulted from it. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
• We all fear the unknown and we all have preconceived ideas of what other places are like. Times, Sunday Times
• And still she would not be ill to fall in with Louis's preconceived notions; living an absolutely normal, rather tough life, hardened by her father's Spartanism, she found that a natural process made very little difference to her. Captivity
• So I went to college, with that kind of preconceived notion which didn't materialize. Oral History Interview with Eva Clayton, July 18, 1989. Interview C-0084. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
• I didn't have any kind of preconceived notions about how these things were supposed to be done. Undefined