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reluctation|rɛlʌkˈteɪʃən|
[ad. late L. reluctātiōn-em (Quicherat); see prec. and -ation.]
1. Struggle, resistance, opposition, of or in the case of things or persons. Somewhat rare.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. vi. §6 There being then no reluctation of the creature, nor sweat of the browe, mans employment must..haue ben matter of delight. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 518 He had gotten in the present Parliament, not without much reluctation, one tenth. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋210 Impedited in her reluctation and conflict with the forren invasion of the disease. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xlix. 348 If this fluid resided within bodies in an indolent and passive state, it could exert no reluctation on any mechanical force. 1876Dowden Poems 12, I was mingled wholly with the sound Of tumbling billow and upjetting surge, Long reluctation, welter and refluent moan. 1887E. Gurney Tertium Quid II. 76 The hush and fury, the crises and contrasts, the onsets and reluctations, of musical movement.
†b. Med. With ref. to the bodily organs. Obs.
1632tr. Bruel's Praxis Med. 67 This [motion] is done not without much reluctation and paine. 1650H. Brooke Conserv. Health 114 The Stomock upon their Ingestion doth not firmly close, but with some sort of Reluctation.
†2. Internal or mental struggle; reluctance, unwillingness. Also pl. Obs. (very common in 17th c.)
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xx. §5 In the distinction between vertue with reluctation, and vertue secured. 1611W. Sclater Key (1629) 265 Because with the whole heart he sinneth not, but hath euer some reluctation against the temptation. 1647J. Vicars Coleman-st. Conclave Visited 28, I for my part..verily hoped (but yet with no little reluctation of spirit, fearing the contrary) he would [etc.]. 1674J. B[rian] Harv. Home viii. 51 If still we find a reluctation, And that we are loth to depart, as yet.
pl.1627–77Feltham Resolves i. xxv. 44 Those [pleasures] which carry the most pleasing tasts, fit us with the largest reluctations. 1671J. Flavel Fount. Life x. 28 By a sweet and secret efficacy overcome all its Reluctations.
†b. Aversion to cruelty. Obs. rare.
1618Fletcher Loyal Subj. iii. vi, Thou hast no tendernesse No reluctation in thy heart. 1622― Sea Voy. iv. i, Turn all those pities, Those tender reluctations that should become your sex, To stern anger. |