unreluctantly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From unreluctant + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]unreluctantly (comparative more unreluctantly, superlative most unreluctantly)
- Without reluctance; willingly.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder; then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.