reluctancia

See also: reluctància

Portuguese

Noun

reluctancia f (plural reluctancias)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of relutância.
    • 1914, David Lloyd George, A Guerra Europea, Harrison and Sons, page 2:
      Não ha homem que com maior reluctancia e maior repugnancia tenha encarado como eu […] a perspectiva de se ver envolvido em uma grande guerra.
      There is no man in this room who has always regarded the prospect of engaging in a great war with greater reluctance and with greater repugnance that I have done […] .

Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

reluctancia f (plural reluctancias)

  1. reluctance, unwillingness
  2. (physics) reluctance

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.