Meaning of Averseness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being averse; opposition of mind.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Oh the stubburnnesse of iniquitie, and mans auersenesse from his maker.”

“[…] the Fondness or Averseness of the Child to some Servants […] will at any time let one know, whether their Love to the Baby is uniform and the same, when one is absent, as present.”

“There were tones in it [his fiddling] which bred the immediate conviction that indolence and averseness to systematic application were all that lay between 'Mop' and the career of a second [Niccolò] Paganini.”

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