Talk:prejudice

I don't believe that the word prejudice does actaully mean an irrantional fear or hatred for anyone or anything. Not being an expert on the etymology of the word I don't want to make any changes. Any other thoughts?
 * Macmillan seems to disagree with you, as does American Heritage. JesseW (talk) 05:16, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Negative opinion seems better, a prejudice against black people, for example. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:40, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Old French
Godefroy lists it as masculine, but if you look at the citations in prejudice on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub, the adjectives that qualify it always take the feminine form (nulle, graunte, grande, etc.) Mglovesfun (talk) 10:43, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Request for verification
From prejudice at Requests for verification:

"The damage caused by such [i.e. prejudicial] fear or hatred." I feel this might be a confusion with the "damage" sense from Webster 1913 (which I've just added lower down); I've seen many cases where an original Webster sense has gradually been confused and perverted into a non-sense. Equinox ◑ 20:09, 23 October 2013 (UTC)


 * RFV failed. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 16:42, 5 January 2014 (UTC)