Reducted vs Relucted - What's the difference?
reducted | relucted |
(reduct)
(obsolete) To reduce.
(nonstandard) To duct tape again.
(nonstandard) To channel through a duct again.
(reluct)
To be averse to.
* {{quote-book, 1639
, passage=He was by nature highly passionate, but more apt to reluct at the excesses of it.}}
* {{quote-book, 1839, title=New Year's Eve, author=Charles Lamb
, passage=I care not to be carried with the tide, that smoothly bears human life to eternity; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny.}}
* {{quote-book, 1879, title=Sermons preached in the church of the first religious society in Roxbury, author=George Putnam
, passage=[M]iracles, if you accept them, will not help it very much; or if you reluct at them, and ignore them, your faith remains unshaken and entire.}}
As verbs the difference between reducted and relucted
is that reducted is past tense of reduct while relucted is past tense of reluct.reducted
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(head)reduct
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*relucted
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(head)reluct
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