adv. (UN-1 11.)

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1655.  Earl Orrery, Parthen., II. III. 271. The Armenians have vnreluctantly submitted to that Government.

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1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 289. It will sometimes carry them through self-denials unreluctantly upon proper occasions.

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1799.  Han. More, Fem. Educ. (ed. 4), I. p. xiv. Unreluctantly yielding themselves to be carried down the tide of popular practices.

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1849.  C. Brontë, Shirley, xxix. She resigns herself to me unreluctantly.

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1874.  H. Rogers, Orig. Bible, ii. 60. They unreluctantly received such as spontaneously sought their communion.

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