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/rɪlˈəktəns/ /rilˈəktəns/ Listen

noun

Reluctancy, Reluctance n.

The state or quality of being reluctant; repugnance; aversion of mind; unwillingness; often followed by an infinitive, or by to and a noun, formerly sometimes by against. "Tempering the severity of his looks with a reluctance to the action."

Synonyms: Syn. See Dislike. "He had some reluctance to obey the summons." "Bear witness, Heaven, with what reluctancy Her helpless innocence I doom to die."

(Elec.) Magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reluctance" Quotes from Famous Books

... Fool ALL the people ALL the time. [Loud cheers. Several cobblers clap one another on the back. Cries of 'Death to Lorenzo!' The meeting is now well in hand.] To-day I must adopt a somewhat novel course In dealing with the awful wickedness At present noticeable in this city. I do so with reluctance. Hitherto I have avoided personalities. But now my sense of duty forces me To a departure from my custom of Naming no names. One name I must and shall Name. [All eyes are turned on LOR., who smiles uncomfortably.] No, I do not mean Lorenzo. He Is 'neath contempt. ...

— Seven Men • Max Beerbohm

... apprehensively hung on the outcome. Carnival week was over, polo and the races had come and gone, and the celebration of Fourth of July was ripening, ere Abel Ah Yo beat down by brutal psychology the citadel of her reluctance. It was then that he gave his famous exhortation which might be summed up as Abel Ah Yo's definition of eternity. Of course, like Billy Sunday on certain occasions, Abel Ah Yo had cribbed the definition. But no one in the Islands ...

— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London

... great many "yellow-covered" books in his time, in which tall buccaneers with long beards and bloodshot eyes required their victims to "swear," and he seemed to attach some importance to the ceremony. Charles "swore," though with considerable reluctance, not to reveal the secret, when it should be imparted ...

— All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake - A Sequel to "The Boat Club" • Oliver Optic

... Ambassador was displeased with his reluctance, and answered quickly, 'In sooth, my Lord, I would esteem myself only too happy to be thus honoured, but in sooth——' ...

— The Chaplet of Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge

... my reluctance to interrupt my studies by a residence in the south, because he deemed life in a well-ordered household more beneficial to sufferers from spinal diseases than a warmer climate, when leaving ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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