unreluctantlyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈlʌkt(ə)ntli/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈləktən(t)li/ Not reluctantly; willingly; enthusiastically.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > [adverb]
to goodeOE
thankc888
yernec888
lieflyc900
lovelyeOE
lustly971
willinglyOE
wilfullyc1000
with (also mid) heart and hand (also hands)OE
fainc1175
lustilya1225
lief1297
yfaȝea1300
blethelyc1300
goodlya1375
blelyc1380
willingc1384
bainc1400
acceptably1479
bainlya1500
cheerfully1523
towardly1523
desirously1531
pronely?1532
fainly1535
wilningly1597
bongre1598
libentiously1606
volently1614
propensely1648
easily1649
with (a) good grace1650
unreluctantly1655
with the best will (in the world)1814
unhesitatingly1829
unqualifyingly1841
unloathly1844
happily1889
1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa III. ii. iii. 271 The Armenians have vnreluctantly submitted to that Government.
1755 J. Brett Lett. to Lord Primate of All Ireland iii. 49 By distinguishing so nicely between Tradition of a Fact and Tradition of Opinion, they will unreluctantly join Issue with him.
1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. p. xiv Unreluctantly yielding themselves to be carried down the tide of popular practices.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. vi. 149 She resigns herself to me unreluctantly.
1874 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible ii. 60 They unreluctantly received such as spontaneously sought their communion.
1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Dec. 920/2 The story has a movement, a vitality, which bears one forward unreluctantly.
1996 J. Lanchester Debt to Pleasure (1997) 104 The breeze racing over one's unreluctantly discarded trilby.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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