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Definition of Adverseness
1. n. The quality or state of being adverse; opposition.
Definition of Adverseness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being adverse, or opposed to. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adverseness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adverseness
Literary usage of Adverseness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Historical Review by Company of Scottish History (1908)
"I observed that, unhappily he refrained from stating (i) how much his adverseness
now amounted to, (2) how little it formerly amounted to, and (3) when and ..."
2. Justice and Codification Petitions: Being Forms Proposed for Signature by by Jeremy Bentham (1829)
"Impossibility that this adverseness and this subserviency should not have been
... Impossibility, after this exposure, that that same adverseness should not ..."
3. Justice and Codification Petitions: Being Forms Proposed for Signature by by Jeremy Bentham (1829)
"Impossibility that this adverseness and this subserviency should not have been
... Impossibility, after this exposure, that that same adverseness should not ..."
4. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"... for the summary recovery must not fail to state that the adverseness of the
claim is merely colorable, else the claim will be taken as really adverse. ..."
5. The Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land: And Other Interests in by Herbert Thorndike Tiffany (1920)
"... to that of the adverseness of the user, and sometimes as explanatory of what
the requirement of adverseness means. In whichever way it be asserted, ..."
6. A Treatise on Purchase Deeds: Consisting of Brief and Familiar Essays on the by William Floyer Cornish (1828)
"... it follows, that the only legitimate ground for presuming a surrender from
the circumstance mentioned, — namely, an adverseness of possession in the ..."