Meanings of averseness in English

They had but one drawback, the continued averseness of lord Thomas Villiers.

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

But the averseness of people to enlarge their field of experience and the wilful misrepresentation of designing persons know no bounds.

To this taste he had been heard to impute his unsettled disposition, and his averseness from the choice of any profession.

This lenient treatment of the conspirators was quite characteristic of the later disposition of Nasr-ed-Din Shah, and his averseness to judicial severity.

After such averseness to a meeting-suchstruggles to avoid him; what am I to think of the sincerity of that pretended reluctance?

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.

He also taketh away our natural averseness, unwillingness, wickedness, and hatred of his ways, making his people "willing in the day of his power," Psal.