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Webster 1913 Edition

(r?lˊ?k-t?′sh?n)

Noun.

Repugnance; resistance; reluctance.

[Obs.]

Bacon.

Noun.

Repugnance; resistance.

reluctation ‎(plural reluctations)

(obsolete) Resistance, struggle. [16th-19th c.]
(Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
(now rare) 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.