reluct

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin reluctor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈlʌkt/
  • Hyphenation: re‧luct

Verb

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reluct (third-person singular simple present relucts, present participle relucting, simple past and past participle relucted)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete, used with "at") To be averse to.
    • 1639, The Life of Dr. John Donne[1]:
      He was by nature highly passionate, but more apt to reluct at the excesses of it.
    • 1839, Charles Lamb, New Year's Eve:
      I care not to be carried with the tide, that smoothly bears human life to eternity; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny.
    • 1879, George Putnam, Sermons preached in the church of the first religious society in Roxbury:
      [M]iracles, if you accept them, will not help it very much; or if you reluct at them, and ignore them, your faith remains unshaken and entire.

Derived terms

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Noun

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reluct

  1. magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux

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