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relentment, n. Now rare.|rɪˈlɛntmənt|
[f. relent v.1 + -ment.]
The act of relenting; softening of rigour. † Also const. of (= on account of).
1628tr. Mathieu's Powerfull Favorite 65 Did he thinke that this Prince who had so little relentment of the death of his sonne, would care for that of his seruants. 1695J. Sage Cyprianic Age Wks. 1847 II. 71 There should be some relentment of the fury of the persecution. 1793W. Taylor Goethe's Iph. in Tauris ii. 46 Relentment ceas'd from pity when I came, And Custom whets again the rusted knife. 1825Singer Cavendish's Wolsey I. 209 note, The rejection of the bill may be justly ascribed to the relentment of the king. 1922Joyce Ulysses 404 The prolongation of labour pains in advanced gravidancy by reason of pressure on the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified in the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to the matrix. 1929C. E. Montague Disenchantment iv. 65 Great are the forces of decent human relentment after a hearty let-out with the temper.
†b. Dissolution. Obs. rare—1.
1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. 9 Some..thought it most equal to submit unto the principle of putrifaction, and conclude in a moist relentment. |