reluct

present singular third person relucts · participle present relucting · participle past relucted · past relucted

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo be averse to.

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

   1639, The Life of Dr. John Donne

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

   1839, Charles Lamb, New Year's Eve

   [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.

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

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