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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reluctant/rɪˈlʌktənt/
▶adjective unwilling and hesitant; disinclined.
– derivatives
reluctantly adverb.
reluctantly adverb.
– origin C17 (in the sense ‘offering opposition’): from L. reluctant-, reluctari ‘struggle against’.
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