disinclination

• There seems also to have been a growing disinclination or disability among the clergy to provide a supply of money; probably both their means and their zeal for the cause had diminished. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri of Monmouth Vol. II by J. Endell Tyler
• Probably the real ground of his disinclination was the fear that a residence at Valence might revive the painful emotions which time had somewhat withered. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
• This disinclination is as old as poverty, and is the rock ahead of all organized charity. —  Told in a French Garden August, 1914
• The cause of their disinclination was the same as it is sometimes alleged to be now--the increasing demands of women, their increasing unwillingness to bear the natural responsibilities of matrimony, their extravagant expectations, and the impossibility of there being two masters in one house claiming equal authority. —  Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
• Thus in England, even under the stress of the Great War, there was among the working population a considerable disinclination--founded on stupid conservatism and a meaningless pride--to take advantage of National Kitchens and National Restaurants, notwithstanding the superiority of the meals in quality, cheapness, and convenience, to the workers' home meals, so that many of these establishments, even while still fostered by the Government, had speedily to close their doors. —  Little Essays of Love and Virtue

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