reluct

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English

Etymology

From Latin reluctor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈlʌkt/
  • Hyphenation: re‧luct

Verb

reluct (third-person singular simple present relucts, present participle relucting, simple past and past participle relucted)

  1. (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.

Derived terms

Noun

reluct

  1. magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux

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