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The phrase "aversion to killing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's strong dislike or opposition to the act of killing, often in moral or ethical contexts.
Example: "His aversion to killing made him reconsider his role in the military."
Alternatives: "dislike for killing" or "opposition to killing".
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We have a special aversion to killing the wounded or sick in hospitals.
Some people have an aversion to killing anything, and some people have an aversion to guns.
Keith Coplin's book is engaging, but never quite resolves the conflict between its protagonist's aversion to killing and his readiness to be in positions where it is required.
Batman is an apt comparison, although Dexter prefers to violate Batman's aversion to killing.
Furthermore, the writers gave Aang a consistent reluctance to fight and an aversion to killing.
Yet this understanding has also propelled armies to develop sophisticated methods for overcoming our innate aversion to killing, and, as a result, we have seen a sharp increase in the magnitude and frequency of post-traumatic response among combat veterans.
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By Robert M. Coates The New Yorker, August 30 , 1941P. 19 Mr. Harris, who had a great aversion to snakes, killed on in his swimming pool.
The New Yorker, August 30 , 1941P. 19 Mr. Harris, who had a great aversion to snakes, killed on in his swimming pool.
The book also speaks of "the aversion most mammals have to killing conspecifics (members of their own species)," and notes that "pseudospeciation, the ability of humans and some other primates to classify certain members of their own species as 'other,' can neutralize the threshold of inhibition so they can kill conspecifics".
Over the course of a hapless six-year campaign in north-western Pakistan, the ideological aversion many Pakistani soldiers initially felt to killing their Muslim compatriots has often ceded to despair at their poor progress.
It focuses on a teenager with a body hair aversion who fears that everyone wants to kill him and whose sexuality is ambiguous.
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