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 notwithstanding the averseness of the intended bridegroom, the project was not at once renounced; and Rupert's last letter to Sophie, written shortly before his death, contained definite proposals on the subject.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Eva Scott
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
For the fondness or averseness of the child to some servants, will at any time let one know, whether their love to the baby is uniform and the same, when one is absent, as present.
From Pamela, Volume II by Samuel Richardson
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
