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Definition of Relucts
1. reluct [v] - See also: reluct
Lexicographical Neighbors of Relucts
Literary usage of Relucts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Libel Case: Geo. Opdyke Agt. Thurlow Weed. A Full Report of the (1865)
"His honest soul relucts at it, as it relucts at one man helping another to an
office, upon any understanding, express or implied, that his friend shall ..."
2. The Monthly Journal of the American Unitarian Association by American Unitarian Association (1869)
"If he relucts, tenderly again she will place him where she can insist upon his
service. And if he still relucts, he must go; for the church will tolerate no ..."
3. The Great Libel Case: Geo. Opdyke Agt. Thurlow Weed. A Full Report of the (1865)
".He would not take ,a. large fee, not he. His honest soul relucts at it, as it
relucts at one man helping another to an office, upon any understanding, ..."
4. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1865)
"If the city relucts, he shall bring in other young people, and chastise his
formerly beloved mother and father country, as the Cretans say. ..."
5. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and by John Quincy Adams (1810)
"Thirdly, that it gives an air of stiffness and premeditation to the discourse,
at which genuine eloquence always relucts; and takes from every argument the ..."
6. Life of James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States by George Ticknor Curtis (1883)
"I want a substantial tribute to be paid them. Praise is sweet music, both to old
and young; but I honestly confess that my mind relucts and re- ..."
7. The Massachusetts Teacher (1850)
"... were as visible as those inflicted on the body, how would parental affection
and tenderness, — which relucts at the infliction of physical suffering, ..."
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