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

Even the union of that noble person, who had been considered as his majesty's favourite minister, did not appear to be enough to subdue the averseness.

From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William

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 Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

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

These tiring and perplexing thoughts begot in him an averseness to enter into the toil of considering and determining all casuistical points; because during that time, they neither gave rest to his body or mind.

From Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 by Walton, Izaak