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

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

Die Dom.—I find great averseness p. 198in myself to suffering. 

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander

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 Kellogg, John Harvey

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