averseness
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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
There are that find in their Natures an averseness to some Persons whom they never saw before, of which they can give no better an account than he in Martial, concerning Sabidius.
From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Cotton Mather
To this taste he had been heard to impute his unsettled disposition, and his averseness from the choice of any profession.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Francis Cary
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word