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
Die Dom.—I find great averseness p. 198in myself to suffering.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander
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 Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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
They had but one drawback, the continued averseness of lord Thomas Villiers.
From Damon and Delia A Tale by Godwin, William
