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reluctations

reluctations is the plural of reluctation.

Meaning of reluctation

Noun

reluctation (countable and uncountable, plural reluctations)

  1. (obsolete) Resistance, struggle.
    • The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man ; so that as we are to obey his law though we find a reluctation in our will , so we are to believe his word1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas...
  2. (archaic) Reluctance, unwillingness.
    • But the very next day, by an unreasoning impulse to which he yielded almost mechanically, without reluctation, he found himself seated before the misty orb.1933, Clark Ashton Smith, Ubbo-Sathla

Questions about reluctations

What is reluctations the plural of?
Reluctations is the plural of reluctation.

Words near reluctations in the dictionary

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

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