reluct
English
Etymology
Originally from Latin reluctor.
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.
- 1639, The Life of Dr. John Donne:
- 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.
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Derived terms
- reluctant, reluctance
Noun
reluct
- magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux
Anagrams
- Cutler, Lucret, culter, cutler