reluctancy

Or he may deprive himself of some lesser advantages in life by his reluctancy in putting himself forward.

His letter, however, showed his half-hidden reluctancy towards giving up the faithful old dog.

The water-lily closes, but With wonderful reluctancy; As if it troubled her to shut Her door of welcome to the bee.

A biographer records her death from smallpox when twenty-five years old, "to the unspeakable reluctancy of her relatives."

Hiding his reluctancy, Cooper left his seat and advanced toward the doorway.