averse
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Is averse a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of averse?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Lying on the opposite side (to or from).obsolete
2. (heraldry) Aversant; of a hand: turned so as to show the back.
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To turn away.Examples: "[…] 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."; "The inconveniences aversing from clandestine marriages are pointedly depicted in the last two lines, teaching lessons of morality to all romantic babies."obsoleteraretransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary