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

No other motive but that of the basest and most barbarous revenge could induce men to express an averseness to so humane and necessary a measure.

From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Ryerson, Egerton

Die Dom.—I find great averseness p. 198in myself to suffering. 

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander

With all her averseness to speech and her vacuous, fishy stare, the girl had long since learned that Big Lena was both loyal and efficient and shrewd.

From The Gun-Brand by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

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 Burney, Fanny