All 3 Uses of
aversion
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- How comes it that all do not retreat in aversion at sight of that flat, receding, serpent-like forehead, round, vulture-shaped head, and sharp-hooked nose, like the beak of a buzzard?†
Chpt 45-46
- "Alas," replied the weeping girl, "I am obliged to own that my mother-in-law's aversion to me arises from a very natural source—her overweening love for her own child, my brother Edward."†
Chpt 51-52
- In that case your mother would hold me in aversion, and I do not at all wish that; on the contrary, I desire to stand high in her esteem.†
Chpt 53-54 *
Definition:
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(aversion) dislike that leads to avoidance