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

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

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

I thought it became my averseness to this meeting, to name a distant day: but I did not expect they would have complied with it.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel

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