Prejudice

Definition: Prejudice

Prejudice

Noun

1. A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation.

Verb

1. Disadvantage by prejudice; in law.

2. Influence (somebody's) opinion in advance.

Date "prejudice" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Domain	Definition
Satire	PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Diversity	Exerting bias and bigotry based on uniformed stereotypes. (references)
Health	A preconceived judgment made without adequate evidence and not easily alterable by presentation of contrary evidence. (references)
Tips from 1870	Usage: Prejudice. "He is not the best person for the position, but his many kindnesses to me prejudice me in his favor." We may be prejudiced against a person or thing, but cannot be prejudiced in favor. Use predispose. Source: Slips of Speech.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Prejudice is, as the name implies, the process of "pre-judging" something. In general, it implies coming to a judgement on the subject before learning where the preponderance of the evidence actually lies.

Thus, for example, in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, the heroine forms a strong opinion of a man's character before she has the chance to hear his side of the story. When the balance of the facts are finally made known to her, they challenge and ultimately overturn this prejudice. Prejudice is also a theme in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Sometimes this is a matter of fallaciously extending one's own experience to the general case. In other cases, it may be a matter of early education; those taught that certain attitudes are the "correct" ones may form opinions without weighing the evidence on both sides of a given question.

When applied to social groups, prejudice generally refers to existing biases toward the members of such groups, often based on social stereotypes. For example, a person who has had a series of bad relationships with those of the opposite sex may develop a prejudice against that sex, and thus assume that the factors souring the relationships are always present in members of that sex, and adopt the set of prejudices known as sexism. Or, if a person has grown up with the concept that members of group "X" have certain characteristics, they may apply this prejudice by assuming that all members of the group fit that stereotype, as in racism or homophobia. In law, the phrase without prejudice means that a claim, lawsuit, or proceeding has been brought to a temporary end but that no legal rights or privileges have been determined, waived, or lost by the result. For example, if a party brings a lawsuit in small claims court but discovers that the claim is over the amount for that court to have jurisdiction, the lawsuit can be dismissed "without prejudice". This means that the dismissal is no bar to bringing a new lawsuit in a court that does have jurisdiction.

By contrast with prejudice means that a party's legal rights have in fact been determined and lost. To continue the same example, if instead the court had jurisdiction, but the plaintiff did not appear for the trial, the court would dismiss the case "with prejudice". That dismissal is a judgment against the plaintiff "on the merits" of the case, and extinguishes the claim that was being sued over.

Synonyms: Prejudice

Synonyms: bias (n), preconception (n), prepossess (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deterioration	Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.
Evil	Disadvantage, prejudice, drawback.
Impiety	Hypocrisy; (falsehood); pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness; adj; pharisaism, precisianism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; odium theologicum, sacerdotalism; bigotry; (obstinacy), (prejudice); blue laws.
Misjudgment	Give a bias, give a twist; bias, warp, twist; prejudice, prepossess.
	Prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice; foregone conclusion; prenotion, prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension, presumption, assumption, presentiment; fixed idea, preconceived idea; id_e fixe; mentis gratissimus error; fool's paradise.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The trick is to say you're prejudice against all races. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Major Payne wiped out the enemy with extreme prejudice! (Major Payne; writing credit: Joe Connelly; Bob Mosher) Terminate with extreme prejudice. (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola) He's prejudice, there's no hope for him at all. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) I just wish that there was someplace in the world where prejudice didn't exist. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)
Lyrics	Prejudice, wrote a song about it. (Free Your Mind; performing artist: En Vogue)
Movie/TV Titles	Bill Cosby on Prejudice (1971) Pride and Prejudice (1967) Prejudice (1948) Pride and Prejudice (1940) Prejudice (1922)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Pride against prejudice : reminiscences of a Tasmanian aborigine (reference) Power, pride & prejudice : the years of Afrikaner nationalist rule in South Africa (reference) Ageism: Prejudice and Discrimination Against the Elderly (reference) Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice against Older Persons (reference) Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria (Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Without Prejudice (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Pride and Prejudice (BBC TV Miniseries) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1 (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	AIDS Attacks the Body Prejudice Attacks the Spirit. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		One side of the monument erected to race prejudice. New Orleans, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Ambrou Bierce	A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Charles Dickens	He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
Denis Diderot	Ignorance is less remote from truth than prejudice.
Elbert Hubbard	Logic -- an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
Francis Jeffrey	Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
John Wesley	Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
Samuel Johnson	Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
William Hazlitt	Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
	Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of land, by improving it, any prejudice to any other man, since there was still enough, and as good left; and more than the yet unprovided could use. (Second Treatise of Government)
US Constitution	1791	Clause 2: The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	In particular the administration of the ports shall not prejudice any property rights of the French or Baden railroads. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He had every prejudice, and took every licence.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	This I mention as an instance of the great power of habit and prejudice.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Many people think that obese individuals are gluttonous, lazy, or both, even though this is not true. As a result, obese people often face prejudice or discrimination in the job market, at school, and in social situations. (references)
Business		Article 85 � 1 prohibits "all agreements between enterprises, all decisions made by associations of enterprises and all concordant practices that might adversely affect trade between member states and whose purpose is to limit or prejudice free market within the Common Market. (references)
Children	Yugoslavia	Few Romani children attend primary schools, either for family reasons, because they are judged to be unqualified, or because of societal prejudice. (references)
	Venezuela	However, the Government has not made a significant effort to implement the law, to inform the public of it, or to try to change societal prejudice against persons with disabilities. (references)
	Hungary	The statement followed the publication of a report by the Ombudsman's office that found that the high proportion of Romani children in "special schools" for the mentally disabled was a sign of prejudice and a failure of the public education system. (references)
Civil Liberties	El Salvador	A provision in the Criminal Code allows judges to close court proceedings if public exposure could prejudice the case. (references)
	Uruguay	The law stipulates that expression and communication of thoughts and opinions are free, within the limits contained in the Constitution, and it outlines methods of responding to "inexact or aggravating information." The law calls for between 3 months' and 2 years' imprisonment for "knowingly divulging false news that causes a grave disturbance to the public peace or a grave prejudice to economic interests of the State" or for "insulting the nation, the State, or their powers." The authorities rarely use this law and did not do so during the year. (references)
	South Africa	The SAHRC report concluded that: "To the extent that expressions in the media reflect a persistent pattern of racist expressions and content of writing that could have been avoided, the media can be characterized as racist institutions." The report recommended workshops and conferences to sensitize journalists to the risk of racial prejudice in their reporting. (references)
Discrimination	Brazil	The Secretariat also continued to operate a hot line for complaints of prejudice, discrimination, or other crimes based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin. (references)
	Congo	The previous constitutions prohibited discrimination based on ethnicity, sex, or religious affiliation; however, the Government did not enforce these prohibitions effectively and continued to act with prejudice against members of the Tutsi ethnic group. (references)
	Hong Kong	In August the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommended that "appropriate legislation be adopted to provide appropriate legal remedies and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, descent or national or ethnic origin." Meanwhile, press reports continued to identify examples of strong societal prejudice against minority groups including mainland Chinese migrants. (references)
Economic History	Russia	Although Jews and Muslims continue to encounter prejudice and societal discrimination, they have not been inhibited by the government in the free practice of their religion. (references)
	El Salvador	F. Acts attributable to the representative agent that prejudice the introduction, sale or distribution of the products that have been committed to him. (references)
	Jordan	The armistice agreements of April 3, 1949 left Jordan in control of the West Bank and provided that the armistice demarcation lines were without prejudice to future territorial settlements or boundary lines. (references)
Human Rights	Bangladesh	Under the SPA the Government or a district magistrate may order a person detained for 30 days to prevent the commission of an act likely "to prejudice the security of the country." Other offenses subject to the SPA include smuggling, black market activity, or hoarding. (references)
	South Africa	In 2000 the SAHRC launched an investigation into allegations of abuse of black farmworkers, local justice system prejudice against farmworkers, and violence against white farm owners. (references)
	El Salvador	In January a judge dismissed without prejudice the charges against Jose Ernesto Cordova for the 1999 murder of William Ernesto Rosales Bonilla, an employee of the newspaper El Diario de Hoy. (references)
Indigenous People	Mexico	The General Education Act provides that educational instruction shall be conducted in the national language (i.e. Spanish) without prejudice to the protection and promotion of indigenous languages. (references)
	Peru	The native population of the Amazon region, estimated at between 200,000 and 300,000 persons, faces pervasive discrimination and social prejudice. (references)
	Peru	Pervasive discrimination and social prejudice intensify feelings of inferiority and second-class citizenship. (references)
Minorities	Russia	Muslims, Jews, and members of other minority religions continued to encounter prejudice and societal discrimination. (references)
	Peru	Afro-Peruvians, who tend to be concentrated along the coast, often face discrimination and social prejudice, and they are among the poorest groups in the country. (references)
	Saudi Arabia	Although racial discrimination is illegal, there is substantial societal prejudice based on ethnic or national origin. (references)
Political Economy	BRAZIL	In June 2001, the United States agreed to terminate the WTO proceeding, without prejudice, based on Brazil's commitment to hold talks with the United States should it deem it necessary to grant a compulsory license. (references)
	ROMANIA	Traditionally-defined trade and investment barriers are not a significant problem in Romania, as there are no laws that directly prejudice foreign trade or business operations. (references)
	PAKISTAN	Legally required conciliation proceedings and cooling-off periods constrain the right to strike, as does the government's authority to ban any strike that may cause "serious hardship to the community or prejudice the national interest." The government also may ban strikes that have continued for 30 days. (references)
Women	Venezuela	Violence against women continued to be a problem, and women faced substantial institutional and societal prejudice with respect to rape and domestic violence during the year. (references)
	Belize	Despite constitutional provisions for equality, women face social and economic prejudice. (references)
	Peru	Due to societal prejudice and discrimination, women historically have suffered disproportionately from the country's pervasive poverty and unemployment. (references)
Worker Rights	Uruguay	The Government may legally compel workers to work during a strike if they perform an essential service which, if interrupted, "could cause a grave prejudice or risk, provoking suffering to part or all of the society." On July 25, the umbrella labor confederation--the Workers' Inter-Union Plenary/National Workers' Confederation (PIT/CNT)--organized a 1-day general strike. (references)
	Austria	The Labor Code provides that workers have the right to remove themselves from a job if they fear "serious, immediate danger to life and health" without incurring any prejudice to their job or career, and the Government effectively enforces this law. (references)
	Venezuela	According to the Constitution, all workers, without prejudice or need of previous authorization, have the right to form freely unions that they believe can help them defend their rights and interests, as well as the right to join--or refrain from joining--these organizations. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire. REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	In the four western counties of Pennsylvania a prejudice, fostered and embittered by the artifice of men who labored for an ascendancy over the will of others by the guidance of their passions, produced symptoms of riot and violence.
James Monroe	1817-1825	Our ports have continued to be equally open to both parties and on the same conditions, and our citizens have been equally restrained from interfering in favor of either to the prejudice of the other.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	As the arrangement referred to, however, did not embrace the islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico, discriminating duties to the prejudice of American shipping continue to be levied there.
James K. Polk	1845-1849	Any policy which shall tend to favor monopolies or the peculiar interests of sections or classes must operate to the prejudice of the interest of their fellow-citizens, and should be avoided.
Ulysses S. Grant	1869-1877	This requires security of person, property, and free religious and political opinion in every part of our common country, without regard to local prejudice.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Prejudice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.72% of the time. "Prejudice" is used about 1,148 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	79.72%	915	7,843
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	14.71%	169	23,972
Noun (proper)	3.39%	39	55,036
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.18%	25	69,787
Total	100.00%	1,148	N/A

Expressions using "prejudice": colour prejudice ♦ freedom from prejudice ♦ ridden by prejudice ♦ to the prejudice of ♦ without prejudice ♦ without prejudice to. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "prejudice": prejudice-begotten.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "prejudice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		benadeel (harm, hurt, injure). (various references)

Albanian		predispozoj, pasojë (after effect, aftermath, consequence, Dent, harvest, offspring, reflex, result, sequel, train, wage), paragjykim (bias, preconception, prejudgement, prepossession, superstition), dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench), dëm (damage, Dent, detriment, disadvantage, harm, impairment, injury, insalubrity, lesion, maleficence, mischief, mischievousness, noxiousness, scathe, violence), cenoj (harm, impinge, offend, outrage, violate), armiqësi (animosity, animus, antagonism, bellicosity, chill, enmity, feud, grudge). (various references)

Arabic		‏محاباة (bias, favor, favoritism, favour, favouritism, odds, one sidedness, partiality), ‏حكم مسبق, ‏غرض (aim, destination, end, intent, objective, point, purpose, study, tendency), ‏تحيز (align, favor, favoritism, favour, favouritism, inequality, odds, partiality), ‏تغرض, ‏تحامل (preconception), ‏تعصب (extremism, fanaticism, intolerance, lose one's mind, narrow mindedness, zeal), ‏ضرر (damage, detriment, devilry, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, lesion, mal, malignancy, mis, wrong), ‏خسارة (damage, disadvantage, doom, drain, injury, leakage, loss, miscarriage, mischief, perdition, ruination, sacrifice, seep, seepage, spoilage, wastage), ‏إنحياز (alignment, bias), ‏إجحاف, ‏أجحف, ‏آذى (annoy, damage, disagree, harm, hurt, impair, injure, lacerate, make mischief, malign, offend, prey on, reflect, smear, work mischief), ‏رأي مسبق. (various references)

Bulgarian		създавам предубеждение у, увреждам (damnify, harm, injure, waste), щета (damage, injury), вреда (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, hurt, ill, injury, mischief, noxiousness, scathe, shock), ощетявам (damage, endamage, harm, injure), настройвам (attune, key, key up, pitch, syntonize, tone, tune, tune up), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), загуба (decrement, disadvantage, forfeiture, leak, leakage, loss, shock, wastage, waste), предубеждение (animus, preconceived idea, preconception, prejudgement, prepossession), предразсъдък (bias), предразположение (inclination, liability, penchant, predispose, prepossession, proneness, propensity, set), повлиявам (affect, be influenced, bias, have an influence upon, predetermine). (various references)

Chinese		偏见, 偏見 . (various references)

Czech		poškodit (aggrieve, corrupt, damage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, scar, violate), předsudek (bias, preoccupation), zaujatost (partiality, possession, prepossession), vyvolat zaujetí proti, naplnit předsudkem, újma (detriment, drawback, harm, scathe), úhona (harm). (various references)

Danish		fordom. (various references)

Dutch		vooroordeel, vooringenomenheid. (various references)

Esperanto		kaŭzi malutilon al (harm, hurt, injure), kaŭzi malprofiton (harm, hurt, injure), antaŭjuĝo. (various references)

Farsi		پیش داوری , قضاوت تبعیض امیز, غرض ورزی , غرض (Grudge, Intention, Peeve, Spite), تعصب (Bias, Bigotry, Intolerance, Preconception, Prepossession, Zeal, Zealotry), تبعیض کردن (Bias), تبعیض , خسارت وضرر. (various references)

Finnish		puolueellisuus (bias, partiality), ennakkoluuloisuus, ennakkoluulo (bias). (various references)

French		préjugé, préjudice. (various references)

German		Vorurteil (bias, patiality, preconception, preoccupation). (various references)

Greek		προκατάληψη (bias, jaundice, preconception, prejudgement). (various references)

Hebrew		משוא פ� ים (bias, discrimination, favouritism, partiality), משפט ק�"ום (bias), לפ�'וע (affect, blight, come across, harm, hurt, impinge, injure, offend, slight, strike, wound), ל�"זיק (damage, harm, hurt, impair, injure), ל�'רום ל�"ע�" ק�"ומ�", ח�" צ�"�"יות (bias, one sidedness, partiality, unilaterality), �"ע�" משוח�"ת (bias), �"ע�" ק�"ומ�" (bias). (various references)

Hungarian		elfogultság (bias, lopsidedness, partiality, prepossession, self-consciousness). (various references)

Indonesian		prasangka (bias, hunch, preconception). (various references)

Irish		réamhchlaonadh, claontacht. (various references)

Italian		pregiudizio (bias, disadvantage, drawback, preconception, prepossession). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		偏見 (narrow view). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おもい�"み (subjective impression, wrong impression), ひがみ (bias, inferiority complex), せ�"にゅうしゅ (preconception), せ�"にゅうか�" (preconception, preoccupation), せ�"にゅうけ�" (preconception, preoccupation), せ�"にゅう (infiltration, preconception, sneaking in), かたよったか�"がえ (partialview), �"ていか�"ね�" (stereotype), �"� わり (hitch, trouble), けぎらい (antipathy), へきけ�", へ�"け�" (narrow view), へき (bias, break, burst, crime, false, inferiority complex, law, pierce, punish, ruler, split, tear), え�"ひいき (bias, favoritism, partiality), え�" (bias, favoritism, partiality, unfairness). (various references)

Korean		편견 (Bias, Biases). (various references)

Manx		noiys (opposition), jeeyl (damage, for damage see jeeill, harmfulness, havoc, injury, vandalism), jannoo jeeyl da, far-vriwnys (conjecture, unfair judgement), cleayney noi. (various references)

Papiamen		prehuisio. (various references)

Pig Latin		ejudicepray

Portuguese		preconceito (bias, kink, preconception, prejudgement, preoccupation, prepossession), prejuízo (damage, damnification, disadvantage, disservice, lesion, loss, mischief, scathe). (various references)

Romanian		prejudiciu (damage, detriment, grievance, harm, wrong), prejudecatã (bias, prejudgement), prejudeca (prepossess), predispune (predispose, prepossess), pagubã (cost, detriment, disavantage, grievance, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, mischief, spoil), pãrtinire (bias, favoring, favouring, partiality), cauza prejudicii, înclina (be inclined, bend, bias, bow, incline, incline to, lean against, recline, shelve, slant, slope, splay, stoop, tilt, yield). (various references)

Russian		ущерб (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, injury, scathe), вред (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, mischief, noxiousness), предубеждение (animus, bias, ill feeling), предубеждать, предрассудок (preconception, superstitions). (various references)

Scottish		claon-bhreith (unjust judgment). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		predubeđenje (animus), predrasuda (preconception, prepossession, slant, warp), stvoriti predrasudu (bias). (various references)

Spanish		prejuicio (bias, injury, preconception, prejudgement, prepossession). (various references)

Swedish		fördom (bias, preconcert). (various references)

Turkish		peşin hüküm (bias, parti pris, preconceived opinion, preconception, prejudgement), zarar vermek (damage, do a disservice, do harm, encroach, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, infest, injure, scathe, scourge, shatter, spite), zarar (average, bad, cost, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, encroachment, evil, forfeit, harm, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, maleficence, mischief, ravage, sacrifice, scathe, wreckage), sakınca (disability, drawback, inconvenience, objection), etki altında bırakmak (bias), önyargılı olmasına neden olmak, önyargı (bias, forejudge, jaundice, preconceived opinion, preconception, prejudgement, prepossession). (various references)

Ukrainian		упередження (preconception, prepossession), викликати упередження, несправедливість (inequity, iniquity, injustice), забобон (superstition), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste), привертати когось. (various references)

Vietnamese		thiên kiến mối hại, th� nh kiến (preconception), mối thiệt hại, mối tổn hại, định kiến (parti pris). (various references)

Welsh		rhagfarn (bias). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Medieval Latin	700-1500	prejudicium. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "prejudice": prejudiced, prejudices. (additional references)
	Words containing "prejudice": unprejudiced. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Prejudice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pardubice, perjudice, predjudice, predudice, predujice, prejdice, prejucide, prejudcice, prejudica, prejudical, prejuice, prejutice, projudice. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "prejudice" (pronounced pre"judus)
4	-u d u s	exodus.
3	-d u s	cowardice, goddess, gradus, hazardous, Hondas, horrendous, jaundice, Judas, modus, stewardess, stupendous, tremendous.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-j-p-r-u"
	-1 letter: pedicure.
	-2 letters: epicure, pierced.
	-3 letters: creped, deicer, juiced, juicer, juried, perdie, perdue, pieced, piecer, pierce, priced, pureed, recipe, reduce, ureide.
	-4 letters: ceder, cered, cider, creed, creep, crepe, cried, cripe, crude, cupid, cured, curie, deice, deuce, dicer, drupe, duper, educe, eider, jerid, juice, perdu, piece, preed, price, pride, pried, prude, pudic, puree, redip, riced, riped.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-j-p-r-u"
	+1 letter: prejudiced, prejudices.
	+3 letters: unprejudiced.
	+4 letters: jurisprudence.
	+5 letters: jurisprudences.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 65 6A 75 64 69 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--. .-. . .--- ..- -.. .. -.-. .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01101010 01110101 01100100 01101001 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#101 &#106 &#117 &#100 &#105 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 006A 0075 0064 0069 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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pride and prejudice summary	26	pride and prejudice sequel	10
racial prejudice	24	illustration prejudice pride	9
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prejudice and discrimination	19	pride and prejudice theme	9
pride and prejudice by jane austin	19	essay prejudice	8
against prejudice racial skinhead	18	olivier prejudice pride	8
prejudice quote	18	1994 bbc prejudice pride series	8
poem prejudice	17	dismissed with prejudice	8
the nature of prejudice	17	stereotype and prejudice	7
pride and prejudice dvd	16	pride and prejudice review	7
pride and prejudice fan fiction	15	pride and prejudice note	7
pride and prejudice quote	14	pride and prejudice video	7
bride prejudice	14	brock prejudice pride	7
definition prejudice	13	pride and prejudice character	6
pride and prejudice essay	12	pride and prejudice cliff note	6
article prejudice	12	example prejudice	6
		listen without prejudice	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Prejudice

Definition: Prejudice

Prejudice

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Prejudice

Specialty Definition: Prejudice

Synonyms: Prejudice

Synonyms within Context: Prejudice

Deterioration

Evil

Impiety

Misjudgment

Crosswords: Prejudice

Modern Usage: Prejudice

Screenplays

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Prejudice

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

Image Slideshow: Prejudice

Computer Images:Prejudice

Photo Album: Prejudice

Familiar Quotations: Prejudice

Ambrou Bierce

Charles Dickens

Denis Diderot

Elbert Hubbard

Francis Jeffrey

John Wesley

Samuel Johnson

William Hazlitt

Historic Usage: Prejudice

John Locke

US Constitution

Treaty of Versailles

Use in Literature: Prejudice

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Non-Fiction Usage: Prejudice

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Prejudice

George Washington

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

James K. Polk

Ulysses S. Grant

Usage Frequency: Prejudice

Expressions: Prejudice

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Prejudice

Modern Translation: Prejudice

Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Computer Images:
Prejudice