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

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

Die Dom.—I find great averseness p. 198in myself to suffering. 

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander

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

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