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
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
To this taste he had been heard to impute his unsettled disposition, and his averseness from the choice of any profession.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Francis Cary
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
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
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