arch. [ad. L. āversātiōn-em, n. of action f. āversāt-: see -ATION.]
† 1. The action of turning away; the turning of one’s back in flight. Obs.
1600. Chapman, Iliad, XXII. 213. Thrice have I compassed This great town … with aversation That out of fate put off my steps.
1673. Regul. Pract. Physick, 27. Allowed Fees he may freely take, and that not with aversation or blushing.
† 2. A moral turning away, estrangement. Obs.
1651. Jer. Taylor, Course Serm., I. ii. 25. An habituall aversation from God.
1659. Pearson, Creed (1839), 460. Our natural corruption consisting in an aversation of our wills.
3. = AVERSION 4. (With same const.) arch.
1613. Chapman, Bussy D’Amb., Plays, 1873, II. 142. I had an auersation to this voyage.
1625. Bacon, Friendship, Essays (Arb.), 163. Secret Hatred, and Auersation towards Society.
1630. Naunton, Fragm. Regalia (Arb.), 18. Her aversation to grant Tirone the least drop of her mercy.
1648. Eikon Bas. (1824), 278. To entertain aversation or dislike of Parliaments.
1649. Milton, Eikon., ix. Wks. (1851), 402. No great aversation from shedding blood.
1672–5. Comber, Comp. Temple (1702), 373. An aversation for that which he saith is evil.
1737. Whiston, Josephus’ Wars, II. xix. § 6. The aversation God had to the city.
1863. Emerson, in Thoreau, Excurs., 13. His aversation from English and European manners.
4. = AVERSION 6.
1730. Beveridge, Priv. Th., I. 111. As the Promises of God are to be the Object of my Hope, so are His Threatenings to be my Fear and Aversation.
