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reluct, v.|rɪˈlʌkt|
Also 6 reluck-.
[ad. L. reluct-ārī, f. re- re- + luctārī to struggle: but in later use (see 2 b) prob. a back-formation from reluctance, -ant.]
†1. intr. To strive or struggle to do something.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 118 b, The more that ony persone relucketh, wrestleth, or stryues to ouercome these..temptacyons. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 72 At that instant [of death] Nature will reluct to keepe still her being, unto which death is repugnant, life pleasing.
2. To struggle, strive, or rebel against, to show dislike, to revolt at, to offer opposition to, a thing.
1547Boorde Brev. Health lxviii. 19 b, A power of the soule the whiche doth reluct agaynst vyces and synne. 1639Walton Lives, Donne (1670) 81 He was by nature highly passionate, but more apt to reluct at the excesses of it. 1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ xvi. 262 Infirmities, which he that knows their hearts..may know they reluct against. 1675Art Contentm. xi. x, Our souls will more acquiesce in the accomplishment of the Divine will, then our flesh can reluct to any severe effects of it. a1734North Lives (1826) I. 157 Against which she did not seem to reluct, but held her⁓self very reserved. 1784P. Oliver in T. Hutchinson Diary (1886) II. 398, I may possibly create a nausea, which your appetite may reluct at. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. New Year's Eve, I care not to be carried with the tide,..and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. 1849Escape fr. Toil 8/2 He is apt to reluct against the oppression of task masters.
b. Without prep.: To offer opposition; to manifest or express reluctance; to object.
1648Hunting of Fox 42 They murther with the Sword of Justice, if in the least we doe reluct. 1671Woodhead St. Teresa ii. xxxii. 203, I conceived, it would be necessary for me to go there,..though my nature relucted much. 1683Hickes Case Inf. Bapt. 75 They relucted to confess their Sins. 1756J. Adams Diary 15 Mar., The girl relucted a little, upon which he gave her three guineas. 1872M. Collins Pr. Clarice viii, Clarice wanted to go on the river, but Josephine relucted. 1899Howells Ragged Lady 357, ‘I don't know as I should like it very much’, his wife relucted.
Hence reˈlucting ppl. a.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. ii. §38 A few there were, whose relucting Consciences remonstrated against the least Compliance with King Stephen. 1659Lady's Call. ii. iii. §7 To wrest the child from the relucting Mother. |