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
In Janet’s estimation, the averseness of Graeme to bring herself in contact with strangers, had been a serious defect in her character.
From Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
Your averseness to her plan gives me pleasure, for it exactly corresponds with my own.
From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney
Indeed I too well know the indisposition and averseness of the carnal mind to God and his ways.
From Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island by Richard Johnson
They had but one drawback, the continued averseness of lord Thomas Villiers.
From Damon and Delia A Tale by William Godwin
