averseness

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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

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 Richardson, Samuel

There were tones in it which bred the immediate conviction that indolence and averseness to systematic application were all that lay between ‘Mop’ and the career of a second Paganini.

From Life's Little Ironies by Hardy, Thomas

To this taste he had been heard to impute his unsettled disposition, and his averseness from the choice of any profession.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis

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