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
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
Indeed I too well know the indisposition and averseness of the carnal mind to God and his ways.
From Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island by Richard Johnson
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
Die Dom.—I find great averseness p. 198in myself to suffering.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte
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