aversenessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

averseness (usually uncountable, 複数形 aversenesses)

1. The quality of being averse; opposition of mind.

   Synonyms: aversion, disinclination, unwillingness

   • 1600, George Abbot, An Exposition upon the Prophet Jonah, London, Lecture 4, p. 65,^[1]

     Oh the stubburnnesse of iniquitie, and mans auersenesse from his maker.

   • 1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London, Volume 4, Letter 56, p. 363,^[2]

     […] the Fondness or Averseness of the Child to some Servants […] will at any time let one know, whether their Love to the Baby is uniform and the same, when one is absent, as present.

   • 1893 April​, Thomas Hardy, “The Fiddler of the Reels”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], published 1894, OCLC 1229736910, page 181:

     There were tones in it [his fiddling] which bred the immediate conviction that indolence and averseness to systematic application were all that lay between 'Mop' and the career of a second [Niccolò] Paganini.