reluctate

English

Etymology

See reluct.

Verb

reluctate (third-person singular simple present reluctates, present participle reluctating, simple past and past participle reluctated)

  1. (obsolete) To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose.
    • Dr. H. More
      to delude their reluctating consciences

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for reluctate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Participle

reluctāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of reluctātus
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