averseness
Example Sentences
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Since Vietnam all media organizations had imbibed the conventional wisdom about the public’s apparent averseness to casualties.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2014
This lenient treatment of the conspirators was quite characteristic of the later disposition of Nasr-ed-Din Shah, and his averseness to judicial severity.
From Persia Revisited by Thomas Edward Gordon
But notwithstanding the averseness of the intended bridegroom, the project was not at once renounced; and Rupert's last letter to Sophie, written shortly before his death, contained definite proposals on the subject.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Eva Scott
Now, whence proceeds such an invincible averseness to that opinion in so many men of sense?
From The Existence of God by Henry Morley
I asked irrelevantly, moved by I know not what spirit of averseness.
From The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
