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 Samuel Richardson
We have never been able to account for this strange averseness to the consideration of this phase of the matrimonial question, and the determined effort often made to ignore it whenever it is broached.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg
Your averseness to her plan gives me pleasure, for it exactly corresponds with my own.
From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney
They had but one drawback, the continued averseness of lord Thomas Villiers.
From Damon and Delia A Tale by William Godwin
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