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Webster 1913 Edition
Reluct
Re-luct′
(r?-l?kt′)
, Verb.
I.
[L.
reluctari
, p. p. reluctatus
, to struggle; pref. re-
re- + luctari
to struggle, fr. lucia
a wresting.] To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance.
Apt to
reluct
at the excesses of it [passion]. Walton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Reluct
RELUCT'
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
reluct
reluct
English
Verb
reluct (third-person singular simple present relucts, present participle relucting, simple past and past participle relucted)
- (intransitive, obsolete, used with "at") To be averse to.
- 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
Noun
reluct
- magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux