averseness

Since Vietnam all media organizations had imbibed the conventional wisdom about the public’s apparent averseness to casualties.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2014

She was pretty certain that lady would be glad to settle her in another county; and that her averseness to so ill-suited a marriage would only serve as an additional recommendation to her mother.

From A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Sarah Scott

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

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 John Harvey Kellogg

I asked irrelevantly, moved by I know not what spirit of averseness.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow