cross-biasn.
A bias or inclination running athwart or counter to another.
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1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery in Wks. (1875) IV. 357 So various were the several interests, and crossbiasses.
Derivatives
cross-ˈbias v. to give a cross-bias to.
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1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 39 Thus doth thy power crosse-bias me.
cross-ˈbiased adj. subject to cross-biases.
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1850 M. Fuller Let. 10 May in Woman in 19th Cent. (1855) iii. 386 I leave Italy..hoping..to return, but fearing that may not be permitted in my ‘cross-biased’ life.
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1652 E. Benlowes Theophila xii. lxi. 227 Cross-biasnesse to Grace our Ruine spinn'd.
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