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

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

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

Now, whence proceeds such an invincible averseness to that opinion in so many men of sense? 

From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry

No other motive but that of the basest and most barbarous revenge could induce men to express an averseness to so humane and necessary a measure.

From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Ryerson, Egerton