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.
Dryden. [
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"He had some reluctance to obey the summons."
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"Bear witness, Heaven, with what reluctancy
Her helpless innocence I doom to die."
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