Etymology From Latin aversus, past participle of avertere (“to avert”).
1
Having a repugnance or opposition of mind.
The board is not averse to further talks.
“I assure you, cousin,” replied the old gentleman, “that the Baron, notwithstanding his unpleasant manner, […] is not, after all, so bad as you make him out to be; and further, I should like to know why you are so averse to him.”1885, E. T. A. Hoffmann, The Entail, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2011:
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This is why the most eminent intellects have always been strongly averse to any kind of disturbance, interruption and distraction, and above everything to that violent interruption which is caused by noise; other people do not take any particular notice of this sort of thing.2004, Arthur Schopenhauer, chapter 2, in Essays of Schopenhauer:
2
Turned away or backward.
The tracks averse a lying notice gave, / And led the searcher backward from the cave.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
[…] and, in this panegyrick of the Teutonick blood, I have so prolixly insisted, not only to vindicate our own, as being a stream of the same, and to evince the nobility thereof, but withal to convince the folly of those wretches among us, who aversing ours do so much adhere unto, and dote upon descents from France and Normandy.1808, The Harleian miscellany:
The inconveniences aversing from clandestine marriages are pointedly depicted in the last two lines, teaching lessons of morality to all romantic babies.1859, The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 24, number 7, page 302: