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reluctancy Now rare.|rɪˈlʌktənsɪ|
[See reluctant and -ancy, and cf. prec.]
†1. An internal or mutual struggle or contest; a mental struggle. Obs.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. xi. 45 Lust counsels one thing, reason another, there is a new reluctancy in me. c1645Howell Vote in Lett. (1650) II. 128 The humors stil are combating for sway (Which wer they free of this reluctancie And counterpoised, man would immortal be). 1651Lilly Chas. I (1774) 219 Also he had many reluctancies in himself, for preferring so unworthy a scornful fellow. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. To Rdr., I cannot think thereof, without much affrightment; nor intimate thus much of it, without great reluctancies.
†2. Resistance or opposition of one thing to another. Obs.
1640Wilkins New Planet ix. (1707) 250 The Followers of Ptolemy..deny the Heavens to be capable of any reluctancy to Motion. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 247 Nor is there any contrariety, or averseness, or reluctancy to the motion discerned in these fresh waters.
†b. Resistance or opposition on the part of persons against or to something. Also pl. Obs.
1650Charleton Paradoxes Ep. Ded. 5 My obstinate reluctancy, against the Advisoes of my Honoured Friends. a1677Barrow Serm. (1686) II. iii. 43 Notwithstanding our frequent and stiff reluctancies thereto [piety]. 1679Hist. Jetzer 15 Come, come, no more of this reluctancy against the Divine pleasure!
c. = reluctivity.
1888[see reluctance 1 b].
3. Aversion, disinclination, unwillingness. Freq. in phr. with (or without)..reluctancy.
1634Habington Castara (Arb.) 113 For he who suffers want without reluctancie, may be poore not miserable. c1680Beveridge Serm. (1729) II. 545 You must not give your alms with any reluctancy or unwillingness. 1740Cibber Apol. (1756) II. 80, I yet feel a reluctancy to drop the comparison. 1826E. Irving Babylon II. vi. 69 The slowness and reluctancy with which errors yield to conviction. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. II. v. 133 Ascribing Amy's reluctancy to her..youth.
¶4. Regret. (Cf. reluctance 4.) Obs.
1654Wood Life 25 July (O.H.S.) I. 186 Hussey &..Peck..were hang'd in the Castle-yard in Oxon. to the great reluctancy of the generous royalists. 1691― Ath. Oxon. I. 9 He gave way to fate at Galloway..to the great reluctancy of all learned Men. |