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

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

She was pretty certain that lady would be glad to settle her in another county; and that her averseness to so ill-suited a marriage would only serve as an additional recommendation to her mother.

From A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Scott, Sarah

We have never been able to account for this strange averseness to the consideration of this phase of the matrimonial question, and the determined effort often made to ignore it whenever it is broached.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey

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

From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry