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RELUCTANCY

Definition: RELUCTANCY

RELUCTANCY

Noun

1. The state or quality of being reluctant; repugnance; aversion of mind; unwillingness; -- often followed by an infinitive, or by to and a noun, formerly sometimes by against.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "RELUCTANCY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1688. (references)

Modern Translations: RELUCTANCY

Language		Translations for "RELUCTANCY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Widerwille (aversion, disgust, distaste, grudge, repugnance, repulsion, unwillingness). (various references)

Greek		απροθυμία (disinclination, perfunctoriness, reluctance, unwillingness). (various references)

Indonesian		ketidakmauan (unwillingness), ketidakinginan (unwillingness). (various references)

Pig Latin		eluctancyray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: RELUCTANCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-l-n-r-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: caruncle, centaury.
	-3 letters: acutely, cautery, centaur, central, century, cruelty, cutlery, larceny, latency, lucarne, lucency, nectary, neutral, nuclear, treacly, truancy, unclear, uncrate.
	-4 letters: accent, accrue, acetyl, acuter, antler, auntly, cancel, cancer, canter, cantle, carcel, carnet, carney, cartel, cental, centra, claret, cuneal, curacy, curate, curtal, curtly, cutely, cutler, cycler, eluant, elytra, lacune, lancer, lancet, launce.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-l-n-r-t-u-y"
	+2 letters: inaccurately, translucency.
	+3 letters: conjecturally.
	+4 letters: excruciatingly.
	+5 letters: circumambiently, countercyclical.
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Alternative Orthography: RELUCTANCY

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 4C 55 43 54 41 4E 43 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-. . .-.. ..- -.-. - .- -. -.-. -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01001100 01010101 01000011 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#76 &#85 &#67 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 004C 0055 0043 0054 0041 004E 0043 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52394655375435483759

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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