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noun

Aversion n.

A turning away. (Obs.) "Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness."

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. "Mutual aversion of races." "His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion." Note: It is now generally followed by to before the object. (See Averse.) Sometimes towards and for are found; from is obsolete. "A freeholder is bred with an aversion to subjection." "His aversion towards the house of York." "It is not difficult for a man to see that a person has conceived an aversion for him." "The Khasias... have an aversion to milk."

The object of dislike or repugnance. "Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire."

Synonyms: Antipathy; dislike; repugnance; disgust. See Dislike.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... find aversion to compulsory intellectual co-operation with woman. We see it in the sullen attitude which the ordinary male student takes up towards the presence of women students in his classes. We see it in the ...

— The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage • Almroth E. Wright

... not what you may be," said Will; "but I intend to run for it. I've an old dame would make a sore disturbance at my death, more especially if dangling from the gallows-tree, which of all the trees in the wood hath been my aversion ever since I saw Long Tom of the Nab make so uncomfortable a shriving ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

... good society in France were present; every evening more and more Germans and Viennese went to Madame de Simonie's, until it seemed as if she afforded Viennese and Parisian society a place of meeting where, forgetting mutual aversion and hatred, they associated ...

— A Conspiracy of the Carbonari • Louise Muhlbach

... my aversion; public dinners are my abomination; all species of gormandizing, my utter scorn and contempt. When I am hungry, I eat; when thirsty, drink. Wine and viands, taken for society, or to stimulate conversation, tend only to dissipation, ...

— Captains of Industry - or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money • James Parton

... progress in the general conduct of men. They are less greedy, less cruel, less selfish—greedy, cruel, and selfish though they still are. The progress which the best among us have made Cicero in fact achieved; but he had not acquired that theoretic aversion to a lie which is the first feeling in the bosom of a modern gentleman; therefore it was that he still busied himself with ...

— The Life of Cicero - Volume II. • Anthony Trollope

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