All 5 Uses
aversion
in
Jane Eyre
(Edited)
- All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.
p. 18.4aversion = dislike
- Not a hint, however, did she drop about sending me to school: still I felt an instinctive certainty that she would not long endure me under the same roof with her; for her glance, now more than ever, when turned on me, expressed an insuperable and rooted aversion.
p. 33.6 *aversion = dislike that leads to avoidance
- I felt, though I could not have expressed the feeling, that she was sowing aversion and unkindness along my future path; I saw myself transformed under Mr. Brocklehurst's eye into an artful, noxious child, and what could I do to remedy the injury?
p. 41.4aversion = dislike
- It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion.
p. 265.7
- Never once in their dialogues did I hear a syllable of regret at the hospitality they had extended to me, or of suspicion of, or aversion to, myself.
p. 390.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(aversion) dislike that leads to avoidance
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)