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reluctating

reluctating is the present participle and gerund of reluctate.

Meaning of reluctate

Verb

reluctate (third-person singular simple present reluctates, present participle reluctating, simple past and past participle reluctated)

  1. (obsolete) To be reluctant; to resist or oppose.
    • to delude their reluctating consciences1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC

Questions about reluctating

What is reluctating the present participle and gerund of?
Reluctating is the present participle and gerund of reluctate.

Words near reluctating in the dictionary

  1. reluctant dragons
  2. reluctantly
  3. reluctate
  4. reluctated
  5. reluctates
  6. reluctating
  7. reluctation
  8. reluctations
  9. relucted
  10. relucting
  11. reluctivities

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