LekhoriLekhoriNot wanting to take some action; unwilling to do something.
She was reluctant to lend him the money
Contrary; defiant; refractory.
Whence we must infer, that the least stir of tumult or rebellion against the Prince is reluctant to all the Ordinances of Heaven, is an abortive product of Hell against the pure dictates of nature […]
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Learned borrowing from Latin reluctāns, present participle of reluctor (“to struggle against, oppose, resist”), from re- (“back”) + luctor (“to struggle”).
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