reluctant
adjective
unreluctant
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a word derived from
reluctant.
Example Sentences
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"J'ai menti plusieurs fois," formed an item of every girl's and woman's monthly confession: the priest heard unshocked, and absolved unreluctant.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
This is not so much, however, an intensification of an already existent secondary accent, as in, for example, Shelley's The eager hours and unreluctant years.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
Who makes, as Christ made, his life a unity with God, undismayed, unmurmuring, unreluctant, neither fearful of God nor disobedient, but diligent, earnest, jubilant, because God has said, “I will be thy God.”
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
His comforters he comforts; great in ruin, With unreluctant grandeur, gives, not yields, His soul sublime; and closes with his fate.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
The unreluctant retrocession of the Cape to the Dutch in 1800 indicates that the interest of defending Australia was lost sight of in the midst of what appeared to be more pressing considerations.
From Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Ernest Scott
