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For other cases, there was the aversio, a formula uttered to ward off the evil invoked by stating a possible misfortune.

nomen omen Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005

Aquinas declared: sin is essentially aversio, man's turn - ing or straying from the immutable Good to some mutable good.

PROBLEM OF EVIL RADOSLAV A. TSANOFF 1968

Consequently the privation of this grace, even without any other act, would be a stain, a moral deformity, a turning away from God, aversio a Deo, and this character is not found in any other effect of the fault of Adam.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Et haec quidem est vera poenitentia, sincera nimirum ad Deum et omne bonum conversio, sedula vero a diabolo et ab omni malo aversio.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Et haec quidem est vera poenitentia, sincera nimirum ad Deum et omne bonum conversio, sedula vero a diabolo et ab omni malo aversio.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

For in sin the creature quits his hold of God, and seeks to shift for himself, to find his happiness within the centre of his own endeavours, totally departing and apostatizing from God; for sin is properly defined, aversio a Creatore ad creaturam.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

John Paul II describes the process as follows: "Man also knows, through painful experience, that by a conscious and free act of the will he can change course and go in a direction opposed to God's will, separating himself from God (" aversio a Deo "), rejecting loving communion with Him, detaching himself from the life-principle which God is, and consequently choosing" death "

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