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

In my averseness to solitude I sat down at a table where sat already a little, bald-headed, false-toothed Anglo-Indian, a man who bored me into fits of nervous excitement.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

In Janet’s estimation, the averseness of Graeme to bring herself in contact with strangers, had been a serious defect in her character.

From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

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 Richardson, Samuel

Your averseness to her plan gives me pleasure, for it exactly corresponds with my own.

From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Burney, Fanny