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aversion|əˈvɜːʃən|
Also 7 avertion.
[(? a. F. aversion, 16th c. in Littré) ad. L. āversiōn-em, n. of action f. āvers-: see averse and -ion1.]
†1. The action of turning away oneself, one's eyes, etc.; spec. in Rhet. (as in L.) = apostrophe1 1.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. (1632) 691 Which auersion or defection [of the Scots] was augmented vpon private quarrels. 1656W. Dugard Gate Lat. Unl. §687 An Aversion or Apostrophe, wherein the speech is turned from the hearers to somthing els. 1668Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 167 Nor permits the aversion of the beholder's eye.
†2. The action of averting, warding off, or getting rid of. Obs.
1664Evelyn Silva (1776) 417 Whatever is Exitial to Men is so to trees; for the Avertion of which they had, of old, recourse to the Robigalia. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xiv. 504 The Humours..are to be purged in the beginning, at which time aversion is the most desired.
†3. A moral turning of oneself away, estrangement (from). Obs.
1596Bell Surv. Popery iii. v. 281 Which is an auersion from God of infinite maiestie. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 307 Sin..is an Aversion from God.
4. a. An averted state of mind or feelings; a mental attitude of opposition or repugnance; a fixed, habitual dislike; an antipathy.
1651Hobbes Gov. & Soc. iii. §31. 55 Good and Evill are names given to things to signefie the inclination, or aversion of them by whom they were given. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 52. 332 There are among Brute Creatures many natural Aversions and Antipathies. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. ii. vi. 204 Coldness and silence intimated too plainly the aversion of the inhabitants.
b. Const. (towards, against, obs.), from, to (for), inf. See averse 3 b.
a1626Bacon (J.) His aversion towards the house of York. 1690Locke Hum. Und. i. iii. (1695) 16 Nature..has put into Man a desire of Happiness, and an aversion to Misery. 1712Addison Spect. No. 538. ⁋3 An unconquerable aversion which some stomachs have against a joint of meat. 1759Dilworth Pope 85 Having no aversion to go by different names, she was called Sapho. 1771Junius Lett. xlii. 224 The king of France's present aversion from war. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 34 One for whom William felt an intense personal aversion. 1878Simpson Sch. Shaks. I. 96 Philip's aversion to pirates.
5. transf. of things.
c1800tr. Fourcroy (Webster) Magnesia, notwithstanding this aversion to solution, forms a kind of paste with water.
6. An object of dislike or repugnance.
1678Wycherley Pl.-Dealer ii. i. 15 For, if anything be a Womans Aversion, 'tis Plain-dealing from another Woman. 1732Fielding Miser i. i. Wks. 1784 II. 385 Mrs. Susan Crossstitch, whom you know to be my utter aversion. 1821Byron Juan iii. xciv, A drowsy frowsy poem call'd ‘The Excursion,’ Writ in a manner which is my aversion.
7. attrib., as aversion therapy, treatment, therapy or treatment designed to render a particular habit repugnant to someone addicted to it.
1950Lemere & Voegtlin in Q. Jrnl. Stud. Alcohol XI. 199 (title) An evaluation of the aversion treatment of alcoholism. 1956Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Oct. 854/2, I have been unable to find any previous record of a fetishist who responded favourably to aversion therapy. 1965Listener 28 Jan. 143/1 One method of so-called aversion therapy is to associate the stimulus that one wants to get rid of with something unpleasant, such as forced vomiting or electric shocks. |