- a variation of reluctance.
reluctancy
Example Sentences
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“There seems to have been some reluctancy in a lot of citizens to be vaccinated,” the Pasco mayor said in that story.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2021
Hiding his reluctancy, Cooper left his seat and advanced toward the doorway.
From The Substitute Prisoner by Max Marcin
And yet a curious reluctancy, a hesitation inexplicable—unless overwork explained it—had come over him when Siward had proposed their dining together on the very eve of his completed victory over Quarrier.
From The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Often, as the long vacation of her third year at Caen approached, she caught herself musing on the probability of her recall to England with a reluctancy full of doubts and fears.
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Holme Lee
To these had nature joined and annexed me: now she parts us; I am ready to depart, as from friends and kinsmen, but yet without either reluctancy or compulsion.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
