Definition for RE-LUCT'ANCE, or RE-LUCT'AN-CY

RE-LUCT'ANCE, or RE-LUCT'AN-CY, n. [literally, a straining or striving against.]

Unwillingness; great opposition of mind; repugnance; with to or against; as, to undertake a war with reluctance. He has a great reluctance to this measure. Bear witness, heav'n, with what reluctancy / Her helpless innocence I doom to die. – Dryden.

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