aversenessn.
a. The quality or state of being averse; a mental attitude of opposition, disfavour, dislike, or repugnance; = aversion n. 4.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > feeling against or a settled dislike > [noun]
despitec1400
eelist1552
antipathy1606
dislike1608
aversion1622
averseness1623
reclination1678
indisposition1702
allergy1916
1623 T. Scott High-waies of God 11 With most..obstinate auersenesse.
1654 A. Cokayne tr. G. F. Loredano Dianea iv. 316 His complaints against the aversenesses of heaven.
1689 J. Locke Toleration i, in Wks. (1751) II. 250 Unreasonable averseness of mind.
b. Const. as in aversion n. 4b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [noun]
loathc1175
unlikinga1398
mislovinga1500
scunner?a1513
misliking1563
recess1567
mislikea1569
quarrel1579
underliking1581
ill liking1586
disaffection1599
dyspathy1603
exception1604
aversation1612
disrelish1613
unrelishness1615
misaffection1621
averseness1622
distastefulnessa1625
disaffectedness1625
disrelishing1692
eloinmenta1763
unwantedness1955
1622 Let. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 71 Considering all the aversness unto it of the Infanta.
1623 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) vi. xlii. 146/2 His auersnes [1611 aduersnes] from so dangerous an ambition.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 14 Dec. (1972) VII. 407 The House..showing all manner of averseness to give the King money.
1683 P. Lorrain tr. P. Muret Rites Funeral 152 Such an horror and averseness for the corruption of the Dead.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (1742) II. viii. 362 Caesar's averseness to restore him.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xx. 131 She was sorry, she said, for my averseness to this match.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 193 An invincible averseness against all supernatural interposition.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. ii. iii. 327 It is not from any averseness to them [special verdicts] in juries.
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