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‖ à contre-cœur|akɔ̃trkœːr|
Also à contre cœur, à contrecœur.
[Fr., lit. ‘against one's heart’.]
Against one's will, reluctantly.
1803E. Wynne Diary 10 July (1940) III. iv. 83 He really goes to sea quite à contre coeur as he was now so comfortably settled here. 1856Geo. Eliot Jrnl. 8 May–26 June in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1954) II. 244 My preoccupation with my article, which I worked at considerably à contrecoeur, despairing of its ever being worth anything. 1893Yonge & Coleridge Strolling Players xxv. 220 Having agreed, it would be well not to go on à contre cœur. 1926R. Firbank Eccentricities Cardinal Pirelli vii. 84 Dear child... She accepts him..but a little à contre-cœur. 1939A. Toynbee Study of Hist. IV. 376 In the West the linguistic concessions which had been made, à contre-cœur, to the Slavonic tongue and to the Glagolitic script were never allowed to develop from being a local curiosity into becoming a general practice. 1979‘J. le Carré’ Smiley's People i. 22 She explained how she had assembled the two trivial reports that were the..price of her freedom. It was à contre-cœur, she said; invention and evasion, she said; a nothing. |