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
Now, whence proceeds such an invincible averseness to that opinion in so many men of sense?
From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry
There were tones in it which bred the immediate conviction that indolence and averseness to systematic application were all that lay between ‘Mop’ and the career of a second Paganini.
From Life's Little Ironies by Hardy, Thomas
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.
