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
But notwithstanding the averseness of the intended bridegroom, the project was not at once renounced; and Rupert's last letter to Sophie, written shortly before his death, contained definite proposals on the subject.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva
Die Dom.—I find great averseness p. 198in myself to suffering.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander
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 Richardson, Samuel
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 Kellogg, John Harvey
