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reluctancy
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reluctancy, n. [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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