reluctantly
adv/ɹɪˈlʌktəntli/
Etymology
From reluctant + -ly.
- learned borrowing from reluctāns
Definitions
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.
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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