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
This lenient treatment of the conspirators was quite characteristic of the later disposition of Nasr-ed-Din Shah, and his averseness to judicial severity.
From Persia Revisited by Gordon, Thomas Edward
Now, whence proceeds such an invincible averseness to that opinion in so many men of sense?
From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry
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 Mather, Cotton
The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
