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

She was a Christian and a Heathen with equal sincerity, a Christian with her overflowing warm-heartedness, with her honest inclination to believe, a Heathen in her averseness to any negation of either life or Nature.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

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 Gordon, Thomas Edward

And as for earnest longing, that we should altogether avoid it: and to use averseness in those things only, that wholly depend of our own wills.

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome

Even the union of that noble person, who had been considered as his majesty's favourite minister, did not appear to be enough to subdue the averseness.

From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William