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
No other motive but that of the basest and most barbarous revenge could induce men to express an averseness to so humane and necessary a measure.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson
We have never been able to account for this strange averseness to the consideration of this phase of the matrimonial question, and the determined effort often made to ignore it whenever it is broached.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg
I thought it became my averseness to this meeting, to name a distant day: but I did not expect they would have complied with it.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson
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
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