Meanings
- obsoleteA turning towards; the act of paying attention.
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
1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΑΝΤΙΨΥΧΟΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΑ [Antipsychopannychia], or A Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC1 more example
We have tested assertions of this kind, not as we should, by grounded and consecutive study of the whole document, but by momentary adversion to the passages specially attacked, with our minds full of the attack
1890, Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, “Chapter 3”, in On the Revision of the Confession of Faith
Origin
- Latinadversiōnem
- Englishadversion
From Latin adversiōnem, from adversiō.
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