reluctancy

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V. Ay! 'tis too plain, the false Olinda's pleas'd To see the Captive's Death her Eyes had made: As what she wish'd, she the Occasion seiz'd; No Sigh a kind Reluctancy betray'd.

From Olinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young Lady by Anonymous

The old King nevertheless executed this with a great deal of Reluctancy; but he believed he had made a very great Conquest over himself, when he had once resolved, and had perform’d what he resolved.

From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague