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

But the averseness of people to enlarge their field of experience and the wilful misrepresentation of designing persons know no bounds.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

I asked irrelevantly, moved by I know not what spirit of averseness.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Indeed I too well know the indisposition and averseness of the carnal mind to God and his ways.

From Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island by Johnson, Richard