AVERSION

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

2.
n.

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion. Macaulay.

3.
n.

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

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