unprepossessedadj.n.

1629 W. Crosse in tr. Sallust Wks. 7 In the censure of learned and vnprepossessed Readers, nothing can be added to Salusts speech.

1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 15 That with compos'd and unprepossessed thoughts you may judge of the Object, I propose to you.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 39 The Miracle upon Lazarus..which put the unprepossessed Multitudes upon celebrating the Glories of this Mighty Prophet.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 187 Being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre.

1818 Eclectic Rev. Feb. 188 A mind..entirely unprepossessed with any theory or system.

1873 Galaxy Aug. 194 The neat simplicity of the scheme could not but captivate the unprepossessed Japanese mind.

1925 Bull. School Oriental Stud. 3 751 Professor Hertel has in no wise succeeded in proving the ‘Kayanians’ to be wholly identical with the Achæmenians—quite the opposite: for to everyone who looks at them with an unprepossessed mind it is quite obvious that they are not.

1998 D. J. Dunn Caught between Roosevelt & Stalin viii. 112 Peace in the eyes of unprepossessed observers..would have been an unmitigated disaster for the Soviet Union.

1660 R. South Eccl. Policy 8 in Interest Deposed The Unprepossessed on the one hand, and the Well disposed on the other.

1894 S. Baring-Gould Deserts S. France I. viii. 135 To hear enthusiasts speak, one would expect something more of the truffle than the unprepossessed are disposed to allow.

1935 Studies 24 152 The unprepossessed will continue to inquire after the qualifications of both mutually hostile sages to instruct humanity.

1997 P. J. Williams Seeing Colour-blind Future (1998) ii. 26 The created prison of expectation never quite permitting the shock of intimate surprise, never a glimpse into the realm of the unknown, the unprepossessed, the unprejudiced.