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

Now, whence proceeds such an invincible averseness to that opinion in so many men of sense? 

From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry

Indeed I too well know the indisposition and averseness of the carnal mind to God and his ways.

From Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island by Johnson, Richard

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

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 Richardson, Samuel