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
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
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 Thomas Hardy
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 Samuel Richardson
This lenient treatment of the conspirators was quite characteristic of the later disposition of Nasr-ed-Din Shah, and his averseness to judicial severity.
From Persia Revisited by Thomas Edward Gordon
