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unreˈlenting, ppl. a.
[un-1 10, 5 b.]
1. Not softening or yielding; esp. not giving way to feelings of kindness or compassion.
(a)1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iii. 141 Be your hart to them, As vnrelenting flint to drops of raine. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. v. (1626) 93 The blade from vnrelenting stone rebounds. 1749Smollett Regicide iv. ix, Him hath the unrelenting dagger torn From my parental arms. 1870Bryant Iliad v. I. 148 The unrelenting edge Cleft at its root the tongue.
(b)1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. v. iii, If the vnrelenting eares Of death and hell be shut against my praiers. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. i. 58 The irefull Arme Of vn-relenting Clifford. 1634Cowley Elegy R. Clerke 27 Who hath such hard, such unrelenting Eyes, As would not weep when so much Vertue dyes? 1717Pope Iliad xi. 178 These words..The youth address'd to unrelenting ears. 1774Monthly Misc. June 309 Thy [sc. Death's] unrelenting hand..snatch'd Chaucer from our arms. 1813Byron Br. Abydos ii. xxvii, Woe to thee, rash and unrelenting chief! 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India I. 257 To save him from falling alive into the power of his unrelenting foes. 1853C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe xxxii, I don't think you can be very unrelenting when you see..how altered he is.
(c)1608Yorksh. Trag. x. 7 In the handes of vnrelenting lawes. 1647Stanley Poems, Despair, I will no more Vainly implore The unrelenting Destinies. 1697Dryden æneis vi. 763 These are the realms of unrelenting Fate. 1809–11Combe Syntax xv. 26 The car Of furious, unrelenting War Leaves the dire track of streaming gore. 1813Lamb Recoll. Christ's Hosp. Wks. 1908 I. 186 The heavy unrelenting arm of this temporal power.
b. Not slackening or relaxing in respect of severity, harshness, or determination.
(a)1609Daniel Civ. Wars iv. lxxxiii, [His] vnrelenting paines do neuer cease. 1656Cowley Pindar. Odes i. vi, Unrelenting torments prove The heavy Necessary effects of Voluntary Faults. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Epodes xvii. 44 You glow with unrelenting Fire, Till by the rapid Heat calcin'd, Vagrant I drive before the Wind. 1795Burns ‘Now spring has clad’ 15 Love, wi' unrelenting beam, Has scorch'd my fountains dry. 1816Shelley Let. in Sothern's Catal. No. 12 (1899) 51 Precipitous mountains, the abodes of unrelenting frost. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 377 The unrelenting pressure of the revenue system.
(b)1614Jackson Creed iii. xiii. §12 Vnrelenting perseuerance in traiterous plots. 1689Cotton Poems Sev. Occas. 648 Bow-men of unrelenting Minds, Whose Shafts are Feathered with the Winds. 1715Atterbury Serm. (1734) I. 119 An Act..of deliberate and unrelenting Malice. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlii. IV. 245 The slaughter still raged with unrelenting fury. 1821Lamb Elia i. Old Benchers In. T., The long-resolved..puttings off of unrelenting bachelorhood. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 316 With unwearied, unscrupulous and unrelenting ambition.
2. Not slackening or slowing down.
1817Scott Harold v. x, With unrelenting pace, From grave to cradle [he] ran the evil race.
Hence unreˈlentingly adv., unreˈlentingness.
1637Jackson Serm. Lk. xiii. 5, 61 It is one thing to be rebellious, another to bee *unrelentingly rebellious. 1777Potter æschylus, Furies 409 Cloath'd in terrors we appear, Unrelentingly severe. 1812L. Hunt in Examiner 4 May 275/1 [He] is..unrelentingly orthodox. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 49 The Albanian soldiery..unrelentingly pursued their object.
1727Bailey (vol. II), Impenitentness,..*unrelentingness. 1834De Quincey Autob. Sk. Wks. 1853 I. 359 Such in its unrelentingness was the persecution. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. viii, He had constantly suffered annoyance from witnessing his father's sudden fits of unrelentingness. |