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 Burney, Fanny

But the averseness of people to enlarge their field of experience and the wilful misrepresentation of designing persons know no bounds.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

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

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

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