Both Uses of
aversion
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- …with the countenances of old men, deformities with irons upon their limbs, boys of stunted growth, and others whose long meagre legs would hardly bear their stooping bodies, all crowded on the view together; there were the bleared eye, the hare-lip, the crooked foot, and every ugliness or distortion that told of unnatural aversion conceived by parents for their offspring, or of young lives which, from the earliest dawn of infancy, had been one horrible endurance of cruelty and neglect.†
Chpt 8
- 'If you find any attraction in looks of disgust and aversion, you—let me rejoin my friends, sir, instantly.†
Chpt 27 *
Definition:
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(aversion) dislike that leads to avoidance