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Reluct   Listen
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Reluct  v. i.  To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance. "Apt to reluct at the excesses of it (passion)."





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"Reluct" Quotes from Famous Books



... thing that will serve as a platform "to build mischief on" is grateful to him. He thus exemplifies in a small figure the same spontaneous malice which towers to such a stupendous height of wickedness in Iago. We may well reluct to believe in the reality of such characters; but, unhappily, human life discovers too many plots and doings that cannot be otherwise accounted for; nor need we go far to learn that men may "spin motives out of their own bowels." In pursuance of this idea, the Poet takes ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson
 
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