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Meanings of particular aversion in English

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Usage of particular aversion in English
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For some reason or other she took a particular aversion to me.
Allan and the Holy Flower
2
Mr. Parker had a particular aversion to amusements of the kind.
Emilie the Peacemaker
3
They entertain a particular aversion to the crocodile, an aversion strongly tinged with awe.
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Mor...
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No one enjoys being talked down to, but I have a particular aversion to it.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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To out-of-door games and exercises I had particular aversion.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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Women, it used to be claimed had a particular aversion to them, a strange inherited thing.
The Irish Times
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He has no particular aversion to caricaturing himself.
The Soul of the Far East
8
Do you happen to remember whether your little girl had any particular aversion to the cook?
Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
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He had then, as now, the keen enjoyment of a joke, and no particular aversion to the practical form.
Edison: His Life and Inventions
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His relations with its leaders were not intimate, and one of them at least, the younger Schlegel, was his particular aversion.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
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Ben Billings, despite his very ordinary name, and Sue's particular aversion to it, had sailed into her ken with meteor-like brilliancy.
Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
12
Finns, Lapps, and Russians are held in particular aversion, because the Swedes believe that they have power to change people into wild beasts.
The Book of Were-Wolves
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To Dove, Johanna had a particular aversion; chiefly, and in a contradictory spirit, because it was evident to all that his intentions were serious.
Maurice Guest
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In regard to this discourse, I should only like to point out that Nietzsche had a particular aversion to the word "suicide"-self-murder
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
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If the girl, (who knows the meaning of this) has no particular aversion to him, she is soon disposed to ask his calumet of him.
An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Marich...
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Mr. Bierce wrote in "The Examiner," January 20, 1895, as follows: "We are plundered because we have no particular aversion to plunderers."
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays / 1909
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