reluct
Americanverb
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(often foll by against) to struggle or rebel
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to object; show reluctance
Etymology
Origin of reluct
1520–30; < Latin reluctārī, equivalent to re- re- + luctārī to strive, struggle, wrestle
Example Sentences
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A mind susceptible of the feelings of humanity, a heart which can be touched with sensibility for human misery and wretchedness, must reluct, must burn with resentment and indignation at such outrageous injuries.
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Milton makes Adam reluct and wrangle, but it is easy to see he will succumb to his wife's persuasions.
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The easy-going persons who reluct at the idea of a pessimistic Shakespeare should turn the pages of Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and Timon of Athens.
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We should reluct at consorting with any citizen who could hear this song executed, in the manner of Brough, without feeling the electric fluid coursing up his vertebra, and passing off at the points of his hair, as the hollow tones waver down the chromatic, or wail in low and spondaic monotones.
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He was by nature highly passionate, but more apt to reluct at the excesses of it.
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