Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Aversion; a turning away from.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs.or Archaic A turning from with dislike; aversion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A turning from with dislike;
aversion .
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Examples
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This we know is the passion of defiance, and there is a kind of aversation and hostility included in its very essence and being.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South Grenville Kleiser 1910
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This, we know, is the passion of defiance, and there is a kind of aversation and hostility included in its very essence and being.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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This we know is the passion of defiance, and there is a kind of aversation and hostility included in its very essence and being.
Blogotional 2008
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His preference of his country and condition was genuine, and his aversation from English and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
American Icons 2006
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His preference of his country and condition was genuine, and his aversation from English and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
American Icons 2006
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Our ignorance is great enough, and yet the fact most surprising is not our ignorance, but the aversation of men from knowledge.
Uncollected Prose 2006
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The substantive, therefore, that should answer to the adjective, I would not seek any otherwhere than as it is included in the word make excuse; so that the sense of it may be they began all for one cause to make excuse, i.e. for one and the same aversation they had to it.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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This, then, is the foundation of the unalterable aversation in the mind and soul to part with the body, -- this strange constitution of our nature, which has nothing like it in the whole work of God, nothing to give us any representation of it, but it is peculiar unto us.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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I told you the soul hath an aversation to this dissolution; and yet the apostle saith, "I have a continual, strong inclination to it."
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The soul's natural aversation to let go this body, is that which we call an unwillingness to die; that hath made some say, like him of old, "Mori nolo," etc.,
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
qms commented on the word aversation
The landscape’s a bleak desolation,
Too grim to bear long contemplation.
A guy could do worse
Than write silly verse
While giving the news aversation.
July 9, 2018