Meanings of so averse in English

She never drank I never saw a woman so averse to wine.

No set of men were ever so averse to advertising themselves.

But not every open-sourcer has proven so averse to filthy lucre.

Ah, that must be why you are so averse to having the orphans here.

But why was he so averse to spending a whole night in her bed?

Dr. Sampson is so averse to bleeding.

Why was she so averse?

The reason is because the nationalised Church of England, so avid to reform others, is so averse to reforming itself.

But Lady Mason is so averse to legal proceedings that it would be worth her while to have matters settled.

He was not so averse to a farmer's life as he had been when he once spoke of it to Marjorie.

She had written to the commanding officer, in fact, and begged particulars from him, as her son was so averse to writing.

Now, an extensive network of iron rails extends entirely across these two Scandinavian countries, which are so averse to a united existence.

In a nation so averse to the English government and religion, these very virtues were sufficient to draw on him the public hatred.

It might be said of Tolstoy that he became a spiritual leader in spite of himself, so averse was he from assuming authority.

Though so averse to receiving Europeans among them, they do not object to go themselves to work for good wages on the plantations.

She told him that they sometimes crossed over into another parish where the priest was not so averse to dancing, and James wondered.