prejudgementn.

a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 29^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Prejuge-, Prejugiment On the todir part, he dred at the king suld, be ane othir na him, haif fra hir the forsaid responce in his preiugiment.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Qq4^v To remooue stronge Preoccupations and Preiudgements. View more context for this quotation

1680 Relig. Dutch iii. 25 Their own prejudgments have engag'd them to accommodate the Scripture to their own Erroneous Sence.

1799 Bp. W. Knox Serm. 7 Apr. 39 It is not free and impartial inquiry that we deprecate, it is hasty and arrogant pre-judgement.

1838 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 1 317 An inference from facts already established, not a prejudgment of the case, by assuming that such soils and positions must produce such plants.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xl. 180 I listen that I may know, without prejudgment.

1949 Rev. Eng. Stud. 25 70 The most familiar Elizabethan critical document has inevitably reinforced this prejudgement.

1990 Notes & Queries 235 416/2 The suspicion..lingers that Southey harboured a prejudgement which favoured an imagined sexual meaning.