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
She was pretty certain that lady would be glad to settle her in another county; and that her averseness to so ill-suited a marriage would only serve as an additional recommendation to her mother.
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 Thomas Edward Gordon
Now, whence proceeds such an invincible averseness to that opinion in so many men of sense?
From The Existence of God by Henry Morley
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 Samuel Richardson