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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Reluctance, Reluctancynoun
Unwillingness; repugnance; struggle in opposition.
Etymology: reluctor, Latin.
A little more weight, added to the lower of the marbles, is able to surmount their reluctancy to separation, notwithstanding the supposed danger of thereby introducing a vacuum. Boyle.
It favours
Reluctance against God, and his just yoke
Laid on our necks. John Milton.Bear witness, heav’n, with what reluctancy
Her hapless innocence I doom to die. Dryden.Æneas, when forced in his own defence to kill Lausus, the poet shows compassionate, and tempering the severity of his looks with a reluctance to the action; he has pity on his beauty and his youth; and is loth to destroy such a masterpiece of nature. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.
How few would be at the pains of acquiring such an habit, and of conquering all the reluctancies and difficulties that lay in the way towards virtue. Francis Atterbury.
Many hard stages of discipline must he pass through, before he can subdue the reluctances of his corruption. John Rogers.
With great reluctancy man is persuaded to acknowledge this necessity. John Rogers, Sermons.
Webster Dictionary
Reluctancynoun
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
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of reluctancy in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of reluctancy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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