For in this inquiry the whole scope of human nature must be thoroughly examined, and our silent inclinations and aversions must be laid open so that we will know how to avoid the one and comply with the other.
For our nature, being invariable both in the soul and in the body endowed with senses, has definite inclinations and aversions by which it is either attracted or estranged.
They are in accord with men's character if they fit in with natural aversions or desires.
This sort of sensitiveness has even been credited with being the main-spring of genius, but it is improbable that the curbing of such aversions would in any way endanger it.
Such are extreme aversions to certain animals, foods, smells, sounds, and sights, or insistent discomfort if affairs are not ordered to our liking.
However this may be, such supersensitiveness ill becomes the rest of us, and these extreme aversions surely clog, rather than accelerate, our efforts.
Had this aversion to fire been innate, as many aversions are, no pain would have been caused, because no profound maladjustment would have occurred.
Or does the Place transform their Inclinations, and turn their former Aversionsinto Pleasure?
It helps a Luscious Sentence to slide, drowns the Discords of Atheism, and keeps off the Aversions of Conscience.
Aversions and antipathies for others usually are either indeliberate, or have to do with what are real or fancied defects in others.
Is it in breaking the bonds of custom, in overcoming the prejudices of false refinement, and displacing the aversions of inexperience?
Whence it appears, that our pleasures and pains are at least as various and as numerous as our irritations; and that our desires and aversions must be as numerous as our pleasures and pains.
This appears, first, because our desires and aversions always terminate in recollecting and comparing our ideas, or in exerting our muscles; which are the motions of the extremities of the sensorium.
But, neither their aversions nor their preferences avail them anything.
The character and tendencies of the heirs, are generally well understood among the slaves who are to be divided, and all have their aversions and preferences.
Her aversions and attachments were equally strong.
The logical deduction thence would be, that our sympathies and affections are the chords, and our aversions and contempt the discords, of that great harp of passion.
In many cases, aversions engendered before ten have lasted with little diminution till maturity, and there is a sad record of children who have lost a term, a year, or dropped school altogether because of ill treatment or partiality.
Any lingering aversions he may have entertained in this quarter had long since been overcome.
Didn't the object of his deepest aversions persist in almost nightly calls upon the object of his deepest affections?
For if the intervenient Appetites make any action Voluntary, then by the same reason all intervenient Aversions should make the same action Involuntary; and so one and the same action should be both Voluntary & Involuntary.
Aversions were attributed to the influence of an evil eye.
But his worstaversions are the people who try to dictate to him.
His Pet Aversions ΒΆ Whereas the Alimentive avoids people he does not care for, the Thoracic is inclined to betray his aversions.
Mania is the general word for the two former of these, and melancholia for the latter; but the species of them are as numerous as the desires and aversions of mankind.
Aversions to peculiar kinds of food are thus formed early in life by association of some maniacal hallucination with them.
It is apparent good and evil, come at by the best possible foresight of all the consequences of action, that excite the appetites and aversions in deliberation.
Appetites andaversions vary in the same person, and much more in different persons.
To have them know that there are all forms and phases of these curious aversions is to make them laugh a little at their own because they laugh so readily at others, and it gives them new courage for the attempt to conquer them.
I have many cases in which patients' aversions have been entirely overcome.
Hence eventually grew up moral aversions and approvals: experience of the intrinsic effects necessarily here coming later than experience of the extrinsic effects, and therefore producing its results later.
Though full of curious and interesting details; it can hardly be said to form a very interesting whole; while in no other of the publications of the author do his prejudices and aversions appear in so strong and unreasonable a light.
I can't afford to hate people so much at such a distance: my aversions find employment within their own atmosphere.
Closely as the brothers agreed in their inclinations and aversions the ways by which each sought to gratify them were widely dissimilar.
But the definitions of aversions are of this sort; inhospitality is a vehement opinion, deeply implanted and inherent in your mind, that you should avoid a stranger.
In regard to anti-Semitism, another of his pet aversions in this period, his record is far less open to criticism.
And all aversions to ordinary humanity have this general character.
They are not aversions to its feebleness (as is pretended), but to its energy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aversions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
