reluctationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹɪlʌkˈteɪʃ(ə)n/

名詞

reluctation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 reluctations)

1. (obsolete) Resistance, struggle. [16th-19th c.]

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

2. (now まれに) Reluctance, unwillingness. [from 16th c.]
   • 1933, Clark Ashton Smith, ‘Ubbo-Sathla’:

     But the very next day, by an unreasoning impulse to which he yielded almost mechanically, without reluctation, he found himself seated before the misty orb.