reluctance
noun
unwillingness; disinclination.
reluctancy
-
a variation of
reluctance.
Example Sentences
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“There seems to have been some reluctancy in a lot of citizens to be vaccinated,” the Pasco mayor said in that story.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2021
With much reluctancy the governor signed it, and thereby put the power of war and peace into Bacon's hands.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
For a moment the Sparrow hesitated; and then, with a sort of queer reluctancy, he dropped the knife on the table, and went and picked up the strands of cord from the floor.
From The White Moll by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
Fox will be Chancellor of the Exchequer, notwithstanding any reluctancy to yield to it in the Ministers; George Grenville may be offered Secretary at War; I am sure he ought to be so.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
A biographer records her death from smallpox when twenty-five years old, "to the unspeakable reluctancy of her relatives."
From Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters
