Both Uses of
aversion
in
David Copperfield
- That old, double look was on me for a moment; and then his eyes darkened with a frown, as it turned, in its aversion, elsewhere.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- Notwithstanding the aversion with which I regarded the idea of entrapping him into any disclosure he was not prepared to make voluntarily, I should have taken him up at this point, but for the strange proceedings in which I saw him engaged; whereof his putting the lemon-peel into the kettle, the sugar into the snuffer-tray, the spirit into the empty jug, and confidently attempting to pour boiling water out of a candlestick, were among the most remarkable.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(aversion) dislike that leads to avoidance