Definition of "prepossesses" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prepossess. (verb)

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• "She is lively and obliging: she is young; not more than twenty; yet looks rather younger, by reason of a country bloom, which, however, misbecomes her not; and gives a modesty to her first appearance, that prepossesses one in her favour."
• "His stay was not very long; not one of us divined the object of his visit, and he did not prepossesses us favourably."
• "Gentleness prepossesses at first sight; it insinuates itself into the vantage ground, and gains the best position by surprise."