adversion

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English

Etymology

From Latin adversiōnem, from adversiō.

Noun

adversion

  1. A tendency or wish to avoid someone or something.
  2. (obsolete) An adverting or turning towards; attention.
    • 1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΑΝΤΙΨΥΧΟΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΑ , or A Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC:
      And if the eye / Of her adversion were fast fixt on high, / In midst of death 'twere no more fear or pain, / Then 'twas unto Elias to let flie

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “adversion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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