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reluctancy

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reluctancyn. [See Reluctant.].
  •  The state or quality of being reluctant; repugnance; aversion of mind; unwillingness; -- often followed by an infinitive, or by to and a noun, formerly sometimes by against.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
    "He had some reluctance to obey the summons."  [1913 Webster]
    "Bear witness, Heaven, with what reluctancy
    Her helpless innocence I doom to die.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  Magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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