Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. --Bp.
Atterbury.
2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike;
antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.
Mutual aversion of races. --Prescott.
His rapacity had made him an object of general
aversion. --Macaulay.
Note: It is now generally followed by to before the object.
[See {Averse}.] Sometimes towards and for are found;
from is obsolete.
A freeholder is bred with an aversion to
subjection. --Addison.
His aversion towards the house of York. --Bacon.
It is not difficult for a man to see that a
person has conceived an aversion for him.
--Spectator.
The Khasias . . . have an aversion to milk. --J.
D. Hooker.
3. The object of dislike or repugnance.
Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire. --Pope.
Syn: Antipathy; dislike; repugnance; disgust. See {Dislike}.