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Word Meanings - RELUCTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth. Reluctant, but in vain. Milton. Reluctant now I touched the trembling string. Tickell. 2. Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience.

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1. Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth. Reluctant, but in vain. Milton. Reluctant now I touched the trembling string. Tickell. 2. Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience. Mitford. Syn. -- Averse; unwilling; loth; disinclined; repugnant; backward; coy. See Averse.

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  • SAVELY
    Safely. Chaucer.
  • SPAR-HUNG
    Hung with spar, as a cave.
  • RESILIENT
    Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.
  • AVERSENESS
    The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
  • SPARPOIL
    To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
  • SPARPIECE
    The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
  • AILMENT
    Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.
  • SAVE
    Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. Five times received I forty stripes save one. 2 Cor. xi. 24. Syn. -- See Except.
  • FRUGALNESS
    , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
  • SAVORINESS
    The quality of being savory.
  • SAVACIOUN
    Salvation.
  • CALCULATED
    1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
  • CHARYBDIS
    A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
  • FRUGALLY
    Thriftily; prudently.
  • SAVINGLY
    1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
  • SPARSELY
    In a scattered or sparse manner.
  • AILANTHUS
    See AILANTUS
  • AIL
    Indisposition or morbid affection. Pope.
  • SAVOROUS
    Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
  • SPARKER
    A spark arrester.
  • DESPARPLE
    To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
  • SAILBOAT
    A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
  • PARAVAIL
    At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
  • UNVAIL
    See UNVEIL
  • PAILLON
    A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.
  • SAILCLOTH
    Duck or canvas used in making sails.
  • HANGNAIL
    A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
  • IRRESILIENT
    Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
  • AVAILABLENESS
    1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
  • TENAILLON
    A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • ASSAILMENT
    The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.
  • SKYSAIL
    The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.
  • FLUOR SPAR
    See FLUORITE
  • FRAILNESS
    Frailty.
  • RAIL
    An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.

 

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