reluctate

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English

Etymology

See reluct.

Pronunciation

Verb

reluctate (third-person singular simple present reluctates, present participle reluctating, simple past and past participle reluctated)

  1. (obsolete) To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose.
    • 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. , London: R. Norton for T. Garthwait, , →OCLC:
      to delude their reluctating consciences

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “reluctate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Participle

relū̆ctāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of relū̆ctātus
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