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Possessing vs Prepossessing - What's the difference?

possessing | prepossessing |

As a verb possessing

is .

As an adjective prepossessing is

tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.

possessing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Related terms

    *possession *possessed

    prepossessing

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.
  • *1836 , Dickens, Sketches by Boz ,
  • *: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.
  • *1852 , H. B. Stowe,
  • *: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.

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