All 3 Uses
aversion
in
Passing, by Nella Larsen
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- It wasn't she assured herself, that she was a snob, that she cared greatly for the petty restrictions and distinctions with which what called itself Negro society chose to hedge itself about; but that she had a natural and deeply rooted aversion to the kind of front-page notoriety that Clare Kendry's presence in Idlewild, as her guest, would expose her to.†
p. 25.1aversion = dislike that leads to avoidance
- The impulse passed, obliterated by her consciousness of the danger in which such rashness would involve Clare, who remarked with a gentle reprovingness: "Jack dear, I'm sure 'Rene doesn't care to hear all about your pet aversions.†
p. 42.6aversions = dislikes that leads to avoidance
- Why, in the face of Bellew's ignorant hate and aversion, had she concealed her own origin?†
p. 52.4 *aversion = dislike that leads to avoidance
Definitions:
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(1)
(aversion) dislike that leads to avoidance
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)