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

The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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

From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry

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

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