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Webster 1913 Edition


Reluctantly

Re-luc′tant-ly

,
adv.
In a reluctant manner.

Webster 1828 Edition


Reluctantly

RELUCT'ANTLY

,
adv.
With opposition of heart; unwillingly. What is undertaken reluctantly is seldom well performed.

Definition 2024


reluctantly

reluctantly

English

Adverb

reluctantly (comparative more reluctantly, superlative most reluctantly)

  1. In a reluctant or hesitant manner.
    • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 5, in The Hocussing of Cigarette:
      Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.

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