aversions
- plural of aversion.
Example Sentences
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What kinds of Speeches signifie the Appetites, Aversions, and Passions of mans mind; and of their use and abuse, I shall speak when I have spoken of the Passions.
From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas
Aversions to peculiar kinds of food are thus formed early in life by association of some maniacal hallucination with them.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Aversions were attributed to the influence of an evil eye.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
This alternate succession of Appetites, Aversions, Hopes and Feares is no less in other living Creatures than in Man; and therefore Beasts also Deliberate.
From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas
The most implacable Aversions have frequently no better Foundations.
From Zadig Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire
