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
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
They had but one drawback, the continued averseness of lord Thomas Villiers.
From Damon and Delia A Tale by Godwin, William
But notwithstanding the averseness of the intended bridegroom, the project was not at once renounced; and Rupert's last letter to Sophie, written shortly before his death, contained definite proposals on the subject.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva
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.
