averseness

Since Vietnam all media organizations had imbibed the conventional wisdom about the public’s apparent averseness to casualties.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2014

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

The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

She was pretty certain that lady would be glad to settle her in another county; and that her averseness to so ill-suited a marriage would only serve as an additional recommendation to her mother.

From A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Scott, Sarah

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

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