reluctantly

adv
/ɹɪˈlʌktəntli/

Etymology

From reluctant + -ly.

  1. learned borrowing from reluctāns
  2. suffixed as reluctantly — “reluctant + ly

Definitions

  1. In a reluctant or hesitant manner.

    • Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at reluctantly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at reluctantly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at reluctantly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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