Definition of Reluctating

1. reluctate [v] - See also: reluctate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reluctating

relubrication
relubrications
relucent
reluct
reluctance
reluctance motor
reluctance motors
reluctances
reluctancies
reluctancy
reluctant
reluctantly
reluctate
reluctated
reluctates
reluctating (current term)
reluctation
reluctations
relucted
relucting
reluctivity
relucts
relume
relumed
relumes
relumine
relumined
relumines
reluming
relumining

Literary usage of Reluctating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sermons by Samuel Davies, Thomas Gibbons, Samuel Finley, William Buell Sprague (1864)
"... even the most fickle or reluctating causes, seems steadily and uniformly to concur to accomplish it—when the winds and seas, the clouds and rain, ..."

2. Sermons by Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley, William Buell Sprague (1864)
"... even the most fickle or reluctating causes, seems steadily and uniformly to concur to accomplish it—when the winds and seas, the clouds and rain, ..."

3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1882)
"... so much effort to constrain his visibly reluctating spirit to " become," as he phrases it afterwards, " a fool in glorying " of his apostolic greatness. ..."

4. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern: In Four Books by Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1841)
"... archbishop of Goa ; who near the close of the century, with the aid of the Jesuits, compelled those miserable, reluctating, and unwilling people, ..."

5. Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review (1873)
"Temptations to this find their inlet with every longing for pleasure and reluctating of pain by the sentient soul, if in conflict with the claims of the ..."

6. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History: Ancient and Modern by Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1832)
"... near the close of the century, with the aid of the Jesuits, compelled those miserable reluctating and unwilling people, by means of amazing severities, ..."

7. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern: In Four Books by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, James Murdock (1844)
"... archbishop of Goa; who near the close of the century, with the aid of the Jesuits, compelled those miserable, reluctating, and unwilling people, ..."

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