Adjetivo
Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive
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"I am a great advocate for timidity—and I am sure one does not often meet with it.—But in those who are at all inferior, it is extremely prepossessing."
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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.
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.
In repose the faces of the men were intelligent and dignified, those of the women ofttimes prepossessing.
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He was a frank, prepossessing fellow, but I saw that he could add nothing to his original account.
The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.
Causing prejudice.
Uso- arcaico
Adjetivo
creating a favorable impression
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strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance