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Meanings of great aversion in English

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Usage of great aversion in English
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Some are born natural mechanics, while some have great aversion to machinery.
A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. B...
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Tight boots were a great aversion of his, especially for children.
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
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Among Mariana's irregularities was a great aversion to the meal-time ceremonial.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
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He held Northcote, Sir Joshua's pupil, however, in great aversion.
Art in England: Notes and Studies
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He had a great aversion to gesticulating in company.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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But Lenny retreated, and cast on the umpire a look of great aversion and disgust.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,...
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To see a drum, foretells amiability of character and a great aversion to quarrels and dissensions.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
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Coningsby entertained a great aversion for Mr. Melton, but felt his spirit unequal to the social contest.
Coningsby; Or, The New Generation
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But she seemed to have great aversion to the notice Nig would attract should she become pious.
Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-st...
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I then took cloves of garlic, though with a great aversion, both from the taste and smell.
A Voyage to Abyssinia
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He cured himself of one great aversion.
The Hill of Dreams
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To letter-writing he had a great aversion.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 / A Magazine...
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The Arabians have a great aversion to blue and grey eyes as characteristic of their enemies the Greeks.
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
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She had always professed a great aversion to love, regarding it as "unworthy of a well-ordered soul."
The Women of the French Salons
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At the present moment I examined it closely, and could understand the great aversion which his nephew felt towards him.
A Ride Across Palestine
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They repeatedly made signs for hatchets, but evinced great aversion to a clasp-knife, although its use was shown to them.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of...
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