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 Noah Webster
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
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
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