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
They are united with the most decided preference for certain opinions and the most earnest averseness to others.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various
With all her averseness to speech and her vacuous, fishy stare, the girl had long since learned that Big Lena was both loyal and efficient and shrewd.
From The Gun-Brand by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
I thought it became my averseness to this meeting, to name a distant day: but I did not expect they would have complied with it.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson
She was a Christian and a Heathen with equal sincerity, a Christian with her overflowing warm-heartedness, with her honest inclination to believe, a Heathen in her averseness to any negation of either life or Nature.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
