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
Now, whence proceeds such an invincible averseness to that opinion in so many men of sense?
From The Existence of God by Henry Morley
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
And as for earnest longing, that we should altogether avoid it: and to use averseness in those things only, that wholly depend of our own wills.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Indeed I too well know the indisposition and averseness of the carnal mind to God and his ways.
From Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island by Richard Johnson
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