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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We often have such, and they ain't all empty talk, nuther; some of 'em are surprisingly bright, and all mean so well I don't never reluct to hear 'em.
From Work: a Story of Experience by Alcott, Louisa May
Milton makes Adam reluct and wrangle, but it is easy to see he will succumb to his wife's persuasions.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
Those among us who reluct at every human explanation of this panorama of shadows, are only too easily able to "flee away and be at rest" in the bottomless gulf they crave.
From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper
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.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
He was by nature highly passionate, but more apt to reluct at the excesses of it.
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John
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