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
These tiring and perplexing thoughts begot in him an averseness to enter into the toil of considering and determining all casuistical points; because during that time, they neither gave rest to his body or mind.
From Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 by Izaak Walton
I asked irrelevantly, moved by I know not what spirit of averseness.
From The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
They had but one drawback, the continued averseness of lord Thomas Villiers.
From Damon and Delia A Tale by William Godwin
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
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