I do not think, Sir, that the reason of this Averseness in the dissenting churches from all that looks like absolute government is so much to be sought in their religious tenets, as in their history.
"Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America"
Edmund Burke
The House have been mighty hot to-day against the Paper Bill, showing all manner of Averseness to give the King money; which these courtiers do take mighty notice of, and look upon the others as bad rebells as ever the last were.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
If any secondary motive mixed with this, it arose from the Averseness she felt, of which she was not herself above half conscious, that any one should hear advice given by Mr. Cartwright, who might think themselves at liberty to question it; but, with all this, she never dreamed of the pain she was giving to Charles's heart.
"The Vicar of Wrexhill"
Mrs [Frances] Trollope