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
With all her averseness to speech and her vacuous, fishy stare, the girl had long since learned that Big Lena was both loyal and efficient and shrewd.
From The Gun-Brand by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
They had but one drawback, the continued averseness of lord Thomas Villiers.
From Damon and Delia A Tale by Godwin, William
She was a Christian and a Heathen with equal sincerity, a Christian with her overflowing warm-heartedness, with her honest inclination to believe, a Heathen in her averseness to any negation of either life or Nature.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
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 Johnson, Richard
