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
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
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
They had but one drawback, the continued averseness of lord Thomas Villiers.
From Damon and Delia A Tale by William Godwin
They are united with the most decided preference for certain opinions and the most earnest averseness to others.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various
