reluct

English

Etymology

From Latin reluctor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈlʌkt/
• Hyphenation: re‧luct

Verb

reluct (third-person singular simple present relucts, present participle relucting, simple past and past participle relucted)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, used with "at") To be averse to.
   • 1639, The Life of Dr. John Donne‎^[1]:

     He was by nature highly passionate, but more apt to reluct at the excesses of it.

   • 1839, Charles Lamb, New Year's Eve:

     I care not to be carried with the tide, that smoothly bears human life to eternity; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny.

   • 1879, George Putnam, Sermons preached in the church of the first religious society in Roxbury:

     [M]iracles, if you accept them, will not help it very much; or if you reluct at them, and ignore them, your faith remains unshaken and entire.

Derived terms

• reluctant, reluctance

Noun

reluct

1. magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux

Anagrams

• Cutler, Lucret, culter, cutler