There is in most people a reluctance and unwillingness to be forgotten

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. Magnetic reluctance. See magnetic resistance, under resistance. =Syn. Hatred, Dislike (see antipathy ), backwardne , disinclination. See list under aversion. [As reluctance reluctancy (re-luk'tan-si), n. (see-cy).] Same as reluctance . reluctant (rē-luk'tant), a . [= OF. reluttant = Sp . reluchante = Pg. reluct ante = It. riluttante , reluct an ( t- ) s , ppr. of reluct are , reluctari , struggle against: see reluct . ] 1. Striving against some opposing force; struggling or resisting. Down he fell, A monstrous serpent on his belly prone, Reluctant , but in vain; a greater Power Now ruled him. Milton , P. L., x. 515. And bent or broke The lithe reluctant boughs to tear away Their tawny clusters. Tennyson , Enoch Arden. 2. Struggling against some requirement, demand, or duty; unwilling; acting with repugnance; loath: as, he was very reluctant to go. From better habitation spurn'd, Reluctant dost thou rove? Goldsmith, The Hermit. The great body of the people grew every day more reluc tant to undergo the inconveniences of military service, and better able to pay others for undergoing them. Macaulay , Hallam's Const. Hist. 3. Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with unwillingne : as, reluctant obedience. My friend at length yielded a reluctant consent. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 180. 4. Not readily brought to any specified behavior or action. In Italy, Spain, and those hot countries, or else nature and experience too lies, a temporal man cannot swallow a morsel or bit of spiritual preferment but it is reluctant in his stomach, up it comes again. Rev. T. Adams , Works, II. 228. The liquorice renders it (ink] easily di olvable on the rubbing up with water, to which the isingla alone would be somewhat reluctant . Workshop Receipts , 2d ser., p. 337. =Syn. 2. Averse , Reluctant (see averse ), disinclined, opposed, backward, slow. reluctantly (rē-luk'tant-li), adv . In a reluctant manner; with opposition; unwillingly. reluctate (rē-luk'tāt), v.; pret. and pp. re luctated , ppr. reluctating . [ L.reluct at us , pp. of reluctari , struggle against: see reluct .] I. in trans . To struggle against something; be reluctant. [Obsolete or provincial.] Men devise colours to delude their reluctating consciences; but when they have once made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires. Decay of Christian Piety . I have heard it within the past year from one of the Southern Methodist bishops: "You reluctate at giving up the good opinion men have of you." He told me that he got it from his old Scotch-Irish profe or, who died a few years ago at the age of ninety or more.