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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 Sometimes towards and for are found; from is obsolete.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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"Aversion" Quotes from Famous Books

... circumstances which preceded and accompanied the birth of Etienne d'Herouville. If the count had no other reason for wishing the death of this disowned son poor Etienne would still have been the object of his aversion. In his eyes the misfortune of a rickety, sickly constitution was a flagrant offence to his self-love as a father. If he execrated handsome men, he also detested weakly ones, in whom mental capacity took the place of physical strength. To please him a man should be ugly in face, tall, robust, and ...

— The Hated Son • Honore de Balzac

... a girl couldn't find the right sort of boat without a fellow to help her," Jack teased, knowing Madge's aversion to the idea that a girl couldn't do anything she liked, unless with the help ...

— Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid • Amy D. V. Chalmers

... person of whom we know little, except that he carries about him more palpable reminiscences of tobacco and the allied sources of comfort than a very sensitive organization might find acceptable. The Master does not seem to like him much, for some reason or other,—perhaps he has a special aversion to the odor of tobacco. As his forefinger shows a little too distinctly that he uses a pen, I shall compliment him by calling him the Man of Letters, until I find out more ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... slept unbrokenly a whole night and a day. The "new law" was to her a mysterious, beneficent, godlike entity, lately descended upon earth, that would make her as she once had been without trouble or annoyance. Her position fretted her, its abstract features rousing an aversion which was even greater than her aversion to the personality of him who had caused it. It was mortifying, productive of slights, undignified. Him she could forget; her circumstances she had always ...

— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... absent from her knowledge, for she had gathered from her acquaintance with literature that it was often a source of interest and even of instruction. Her father had kept it away from her—her handsome, much loved father, who always had such an aversion to it. It was a great felicity to have been his daughter; Isabel rose even to pride in her parentage. Since his death she had seemed to see him as turning his braver side to his children and as not having managed to ignore the ugly quite so much in practice as in aspiration. ...

— The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1 (of 2) • Henry James

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