aversion

[In Fr. & Sp. aversion; Port. aversao; Ital. avers i one. From Lat. aversio.] I. The act of turning away ( lit. or fig.). 1. Lit. The act of literally turning away. (Used of persons or of material substances.) + (a) Of persons: The act of literally turning round and departing. This may arise from a desire to have no more to do with a person disliked [2]. (b) Of material substances: The proce of separating from, or the tendency to separate from, another substance from which there is a chemical, an electrical, or other repulsion. 2. Fig .: The act of mentally turning away, when antipathy is felt to a person or thing; dislike, repugnance to, but not so strong as that implied by the word hatred . "The Khasias have an aversion to milk." Hooker : Him a lay an Journals , vol. ii., p. 275. IL The state of being turned away from, in a literal or figurative sense. his sordid rapacity had made him an object of general aversion."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xxi. III. An object of dislike; the person or persons from whom, or that from which, one turns away. "They took great pleasure in compounding lawsuits among their neighbours; for which they were the aversion of the gentlemen of the long robe."Arbuthnot: Hist. of John Bull "Self-love and reason to one end aspire; Pain their aversion , pleasure their desire." Pope: E ay on Man, ii. 88. Aversion is now followed by to , or for , or from; formerly it might have from , to , for , or towards. "A freeholder is bred with an aversion to subjection," -Add is on. "The same adhesion to vice, and aversion from goodne , will be a reason for rejecting any proof whatsoever."-Atterbury. a state for which they have so great aversion."-Add is on. "His aversion towards the house of York..." Bacon .