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 Morley, Henry

Even the union of that noble person, who had been considered as his majesty's favourite minister, did not appear to be enough to subdue the averseness.

From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William

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

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