unrelentingadj.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈlɛntɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˌənrəˈlɛn(t)ɪŋ/

Forms: see un- prefix¹ and relenting adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, relenting adj.

Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + relenting adj.

1. Not giving way to feelings of kindness, compassion, or mercy; unyieldingly harsh, stern, or strict.

a. Applied to persons, personal attributes, etc.Also sometimes applied to weapons as a transferred epithet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [adjective] > rigidly or relentlessly

grima1000

steely1508

unbowable1537

inexorable1553

unrelenting1590

unrelentless1606

rigid1610

implacable1611

unrelentable1611

unsoftened1645

unconniving1671

ramrod1850

unexcusing1853

unsoftening1857

tough1905

the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adjective] > merciless > unrelenting

unrelenting1590

relentless1592

irrelenting1616

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. L^v If the vnrelenting eares Of death and hell be shut against my praiers.

a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. I4 Send for vnrelenting Mortimer and Isabell.

1634 A. Cowley Elegy on Mr. R. Clarke 27 Who hath such hard, such unrelenting Eyes, As would not weep when so much Vertue dyes?

1693 S. Wesley Life our Blessed Lord iv. 135 No longer time, his unrelenting Sword Soon stop'd his breath, an easie way it found.

1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xi. 178 These Words..The Youths address'd to unrelenting Ears.

1781 J. Moore View Society Italy (1795) II. 3 The unrelenting frown of a negro-driver.

1843 F. Russell Metrical Version 50 Psalms lxxviii. 38 Unmourn'd, unwept, the holy Levites feel The keen avenger's unrelenting steel.

1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. v. 257 To save him from falling alive into the power of his unrelenting foes.

1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe II. x. 157 I don't think you can be very unrelenting when you see..how altered he is.

1915 E. M. Hulme Renaissance, Protestant Revol. & Catholic Reformation (rev. ed.) xvi. 305 Hostility to his strict and unrelenting rule broke out again..in less than two years.

1940 B. Sobel Theatre Handbk. 469 Richard, as a dramatic character, is drawn as ruthless and ambitious, cruel and unrelenting.

1996 K. Duffy Who were Celts? xi. 181 This harsh, unrelenting man, who had always appeared sternly unemotional, cried real tears when he later lay dying.

b. Applied to other things more or less personified, as war, the law, etc.In later use sometimes coloured by sense 3b.

ΚΠ

1608 Yorkshire Trag. sig. D2 In the hands of vnrelenting lawes.

1647 T. Stanley Poems 38 in Poems & Transl. I will no more Vainely implore The unrelenting Destinies.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 385 These are the Realms of unrelenting Fate.

1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 494 Nor can his spotted Skin, Tho' sleek it shine,..Save the proud Pard from unrelenting Fate.

1810 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. July 97 The car Of furious, unrelenting War Leaves the dire tracks of streaming gore.

1813 C. Lamb Recoll. Christ's Hosp. in Gentleman's Mag. 87 Suppl. 620/2 The heavy unrelenting arm of this temporal power.

1865 Ladies' Repository Nov. 268/2 The roads were uncut by cannon wheels, and the houses untouched by unrelenting war.

1918 Illinois Med. Jrnl. Nov. 250/2 These professional cut-throats, bandits and ravishers are..trembling at the approach of unrelenting justice.

2001 H. Chadwick Church in Anc. Soc. v. 41 Marcion..declared the Old Testament to be the unrelenting law of justice.

2. Of a physical object or substance: hard, resistant, impenetrable. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > strength > [adjective] > unyielding

hardeOE

steevec1300

stubborn1577

unrelenting1594

unyielding1658

renitent1701

unsusceptible1893

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 141 Be your hart to them: As vnrelenting Flint to drops of raine.

1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis v. 124 The blade from vnrelenting stone rebounds.

1797 J. Kershaw Extensive Plan Human Redempt. viii. 139 He..Sinks the tossed vessel in shoals, or dashes its yielding bottom or sides against the unrelenting rock.

1871 Blanche Seymour III. xv. 258 The oar..slipped as she sprang, and the fair, white forehead came with violent and fatal force against the unrelenting rock.

1912 T. W. Wilby & A. A. Wilby On Trail to Sunset xx. 331 The journey had been a continual struggle..over the hard, unrelenting surfaces of the lava deposits of the Indian country of Romanses.

2010 T. Jacobs-Stewart Mindfulness & 12 Steps x. 154 How long it must have taken to carve a home out of a solid, unrelenting rock.

a. Not weakening or slackening in vigour or determination, as in the pursuit of a particular course of action or the adoption of a particular stance; unflagging, unwearying, unwavering; relentless.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [adjective]

unwearyc893

unwearieda1240

perseverant1340

continuing1393

persevering?a1425

importunate1477

infatigable?1510

unfatigablec1550

persisting1552

unweariable1561

holdfast1567

indefatigable1586

patient1590

faintless1593

untired1597

untired1600

assidual1605

unrelenting1606

persistive1609

unwearyinga1614

hard1615

indefesse1621

constant1639

assiduous1660

dogged1700

unremitting1730

inexhaustible1762

unremitted1774

untiring1823

persistent1830

sleuth1864

tug-like1890

1606 Declar. Variance betweene Pope & Segniory of Venice 41 [They] with much vehemencie incited him to an vnrelenting constancy against the vnconformable Venetians.

1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. xiii. §12 Vnrelenting perseuerance in traiterous plots.

a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 648 Bow-men of unrelenting Minds, Whose Shafts are Feathered with the Winds.

1724 E. Maynard Serm. preach'd before Univ. Oxf. II. i. 31 An Unrelenting Atheist, that can boldly stand to his Principles, and glory in his Vice and Impieties.

1733 A. Taylor Difficult Work & Happy End Faithful Ministers 98 To grow..more stiff, and unrelenting in our detestation of the atheism, profaneness, errors, indifference, lukewarmness and self-seeking of others.

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 594 The infuriate and unrelenting opponent of Nash.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 316 With unwearied, unscrupulous and unrelenting ambition.

1912 Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen's Mag. Oct. 509/2 The bedbug has been, for generations, the abomination of the housewife, and the object of her unrelenting warfare.

1961 B. R. Wilson Sects & Society ii. ix. 189 Mrs Eddy..was unrelenting in her attacks on spiritualism, mesmerism..and millenarianism.

1998 Isis 89 319 In their unrelenting search for information the Websters became familiars in European museums and societies of horology, astronomy, and astrolabes.

2009 L. Brownworth Lost to West xii. 133 Faced with the unrelenting attack, the government at Constantinople panicked and moved to Sicily.

b. Without reference to consciously directed effort: not diminishing in intensity or severity; unabating, unremitting; (later also) unvarying, unrelieved.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > [adjective] > not slowing down

unrelenting1609

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [adjective] > not reduced in severity

relentless1592

unmitigated1600

unrelenting1609

unabateda1625

unrebated1681

unalleviated1750

unlightened1784

1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. lxxxiii. 108 [His] vnrelenting paines do neuer cease.

1656 A. Cowley Pindaric Odes i. vi Unrelenting torments prove The heavy Necessary effects of Voluntary Faults.

1712 B. Morrice Miscellanies 11 Yet he perverse, with unrelenting Pace Pursues the Savage Pleasures of the Chace.

1743 P. Francis tr. Horace Epodes xvii. 44 You glow with unrelenting Fire, Till by the rapid Heat calcin'd, Vagrant I drive before the Wind.

1795 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 793 Love wi' unrelenting beam Has scorch'd my fountains dry.

1816 P. B. Shelley Let. 22 July (1964) I. 500 Precipitous mountains the abodes of unrelenting frost.

1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Sept. 281/2 The long-resolved..puttings off of unrelenting bachelorhood.

1890 T. S. Perry Hist. Greek Lit. iii. vi. 502 The cynical and wearied public..would have cared as little to have the unrelenting grimness of life represented in a play as [etc.].

1907 F. Hayllar Nepenthes xxvii. 287 The unrelenting rain still poured from the grey windy sky.

1963 Guardian 28 Mar. 9/1 The couth and uncouth punch each other about the ears with unrelenting monotony.

2010 A. Milford & J. Gauvain How Not to Marry Wrong Guy iii. 68 Almost all of the women we interviewed talked about pressure of one form or another influencing their decisions to marry. They cited unrelenting pressure from their friends, families and themselves.

Derivatives

ˌunreˈlentingly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adverb] > inflexibly

unmovablyc1425

inflexiblya1535

inexorably1610

rigidly1610

unpersuadably1619

unrelentingly1637

impersuasibly1659

full-mouthedly1681

unpliantly1755

uncompromisingly1834

indomitably1837

imperviously1840

unyieldingly1884

tough1943

the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adverb] > mercilessly > unrelentingly

irrelentlessly1624

unrelentingly1637

relentlessly1737

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [adverb] > with no softening of severity

irrelentlessly1624

relentlessly1737

unpacifiedly1748

intemperately1765

unrelentingly1777

unmitigably1808

unabatedly1828

unmitigatedly1832

intemperably1897

1637 T. Jackson Serm. Luke xiii. 5 61 It is one thing to be rebellious, another to bee unrelentingly rebellious.

1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Furies in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 409 Cloath'd in terrors we appear, Unrelentingly severe.

1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 49 The Albanian soldiery..unrelentingly pursued their object.

1940 Washington Post 1 Mar. 18/1 The blonde star has a role that is unremittingly serious in a film that is unrelentingly grim.

2002 N.Y. Mag. 14 Oct. 121/1 Humorless, blandly self-confessional, unrelentingly grim emo rock.

ˌunreˈlentingness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [noun] > mercilessness > unrelentingness

unrelentance1637

unrelentingness1649

relentlessness1805

1649 J. Goodwin Ὑβριστοδίκαι: Obstructours of Justice 126 To project and practice revenge upon such persons, by whom they have been worsted from time to time, with so much the more subtility, industrie, and unrelentingnesse of spirit.

1758 Centinel (ed. 2) II. 187 Particular regard will be had to the dispatch and unrelentingness with which the fair destroyer has done her business.

1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner viii. 131 He had constantly suffered annoyance from witnessing his father's sudden fits of unrelentingness.

2007 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 24 Feb. m22 Despite the good humour, or because of its unrelentingness perhaps, I began to tire of it part way through.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	unrelenting
释义	unrelentingadj. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈlɛntɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈlɛn(t)ɪŋ/ Forms: see un- prefix¹ and relenting adj. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, relenting adj. Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + relenting adj. 1. Not giving way to feelings of kindness, compassion, or mercy; unyieldingly harsh, stern, or strict. a. Applied to persons, personal attributes, etc.Also sometimes applied to weapons as a transferred epithet. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [adjective] > rigidly or relentlessly grima1000 steely1508 unbowable1537 inexorable1553 unrelenting1590 unrelentless1606 rigid1610 implacable1611 unrelentable1611 unsoftened1645 unconniving1671 ramrod1850 unexcusing1853 unsoftening1857 tough1905 the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adjective] > merciless > unrelenting unrelenting1590 relentless1592 irrelenting1616 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. L^v If the vnrelenting eares Of death and hell be shut against my praiers. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. I4 Send for vnrelenting Mortimer and Isabell. 1634 A. Cowley Elegy on Mr. R. Clarke 27 Who hath such hard, such unrelenting Eyes, As would not weep when so much Vertue dyes? 1693 S. Wesley Life our Blessed Lord iv. 135 No longer time, his unrelenting Sword Soon stop'd his breath, an easie way it found. 1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xi. 178 These Words..The Youths address'd to unrelenting Ears. 1781 J. Moore View Society Italy (1795) II. 3 The unrelenting frown of a negro-driver. 1843 F. Russell Metrical Version 50 Psalms lxxviii. 38 Unmourn'd, unwept, the holy Levites feel The keen avenger's unrelenting steel. 1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. v. 257 To save him from falling alive into the power of his unrelenting foes. 1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe II. x. 157 I don't think you can be very unrelenting when you see..how altered he is. 1915 E. M. Hulme Renaissance, Protestant Revol. & Catholic Reformation (rev. ed.) xvi. 305 Hostility to his strict and unrelenting rule broke out again..in less than two years. 1940 B. Sobel Theatre Handbk. 469 Richard, as a dramatic character, is drawn as ruthless and ambitious, cruel and unrelenting. 1996 K. Duffy Who were Celts? xi. 181 This harsh, unrelenting man, who had always appeared sternly unemotional, cried real tears when he later lay dying. b. Applied to other things more or less personified, as war, the law, etc.In later use sometimes coloured by sense 3b. ΚΠ 1608 Yorkshire Trag. sig. D2 In the hands of vnrelenting lawes. 1647 T. Stanley Poems 38 in Poems & Transl. I will no more Vainely implore The unrelenting Destinies. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 385 These are the Realms of unrelenting Fate. 1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 494 Nor can his spotted Skin, Tho' sleek it shine,..Save the proud Pard from unrelenting Fate. 1810 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. July 97 The car Of furious, unrelenting War Leaves the dire tracks of streaming gore. 1813 C. Lamb Recoll. Christ's Hosp. in Gentleman's Mag. 87 Suppl. 620/2 The heavy unrelenting arm of this temporal power. 1865 Ladies' Repository Nov. 268/2 The roads were uncut by cannon wheels, and the houses untouched by unrelenting war. 1918 Illinois Med. Jrnl. Nov. 250/2 These professional cut-throats, bandits and ravishers are..trembling at the approach of unrelenting justice. 2001 H. Chadwick Church in Anc. Soc. v. 41 Marcion..declared the Old Testament to be the unrelenting law of justice. 2. Of a physical object or substance: hard, resistant, impenetrable. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > strength > [adjective] > unyielding hardeOE steevec1300 stubborn1577 unrelenting1594 unyielding1658 renitent1701 unsusceptible1893 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 141 Be your hart to them: As vnrelenting Flint to drops of raine. View more context for this quotation 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis v. 124 The blade from vnrelenting stone rebounds. 1797 J. Kershaw Extensive Plan Human Redempt. viii. 139 He..Sinks the tossed vessel in shoals, or dashes its yielding bottom or sides against the unrelenting rock. 1871 Blanche Seymour III. xv. 258 The oar..slipped as she sprang, and the fair, white forehead came with violent and fatal force against the unrelenting rock. 1912 T. W. Wilby & A. A. Wilby On Trail to Sunset xx. 331 The journey had been a continual struggle..over the hard, unrelenting surfaces of the lava deposits of the Indian country of Romanses. 2010 T. Jacobs-Stewart Mindfulness & 12 Steps x. 154 How long it must have taken to carve a home out of a solid, unrelenting rock. 3. a. Not weakening or slackening in vigour or determination, as in the pursuit of a particular course of action or the adoption of a particular stance; unflagging, unwearying, unwavering; relentless. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [adjective] unwearyc893 unwearieda1240 perseverant1340 continuing1393 persevering?a1425 importunate1477 infatigable?1510 unfatigablec1550 persisting1552 unweariable1561 holdfast1567 indefatigable1586 patient1590 faintless1593 untired1597 untired1600 assidual1605 unrelenting1606 persistive1609 unwearyinga1614 hard1615 indefesse1621 constant1639 assiduous1660 dogged1700 unremitting1730 inexhaustible1762 unremitted1774 untiring1823 persistent1830 sleuth1864 tug-like1890 1606 Declar. Variance betweene Pope & Segniory of Venice 41 [They] with much vehemencie incited him to an vnrelenting constancy against the vnconformable Venetians. 1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. xiii. §12 Vnrelenting perseuerance in traiterous plots. a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 648 Bow-men of unrelenting Minds, Whose Shafts are Feathered with the Winds. 1724 E. Maynard Serm. preach'd before Univ. Oxf. II. i. 31 An Unrelenting Atheist, that can boldly stand to his Principles, and glory in his Vice and Impieties. 1733 A. Taylor Difficult Work & Happy End Faithful Ministers 98 To grow..more stiff, and unrelenting in our detestation of the atheism, profaneness, errors, indifference, lukewarmness and self-seeking of others. 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 594 The infuriate and unrelenting opponent of Nash. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 316 With unwearied, unscrupulous and unrelenting ambition. 1912 Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen's Mag. Oct. 509/2 The bedbug has been, for generations, the abomination of the housewife, and the object of her unrelenting warfare. 1961 B. R. Wilson Sects & Society ii. ix. 189 Mrs Eddy..was unrelenting in her attacks on spiritualism, mesmerism..and millenarianism. 1998 Isis 89 319 In their unrelenting search for information the Websters became familiars in European museums and societies of horology, astronomy, and astrolabes. 2009 L. Brownworth Lost to West xii. 133 Faced with the unrelenting attack, the government at Constantinople panicked and moved to Sicily. b. Without reference to consciously directed effort: not diminishing in intensity or severity; unabating, unremitting; (later also) unvarying, unrelieved. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > [adjective] > not slowing down unrelenting1609 the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [adjective] > not reduced in severity relentless1592 unmitigated1600 unrelenting1609 unabateda1625 unrebated1681 unalleviated1750 unlightened1784 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. lxxxiii. 108 [His] vnrelenting paines do neuer cease. 1656 A. Cowley Pindaric Odes i. vi Unrelenting torments prove The heavy Necessary effects of Voluntary Faults. 1712 B. Morrice Miscellanies 11 Yet he perverse, with unrelenting Pace Pursues the Savage Pleasures of the Chace. 1743 P. Francis tr. Horace Epodes xvii. 44 You glow with unrelenting Fire, Till by the rapid Heat calcin'd, Vagrant I drive before the Wind. 1795 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 793 Love wi' unrelenting beam Has scorch'd my fountains dry. 1816 P. B. Shelley Let. 22 July (1964) I. 500 Precipitous mountains the abodes of unrelenting frost. 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Sept. 281/2 The long-resolved..puttings off of unrelenting bachelorhood. 1890 T. S. Perry Hist. Greek Lit. iii. vi. 502 The cynical and wearied public..would have cared as little to have the unrelenting grimness of life represented in a play as [etc.]. 1907 F. Hayllar Nepenthes xxvii. 287 The unrelenting rain still poured from the grey windy sky. 1963 Guardian 28 Mar. 9/1 The couth and uncouth punch each other about the ears with unrelenting monotony. 2010 A. Milford & J. Gauvain How Not to Marry Wrong Guy iii. 68 Almost all of the women we interviewed talked about pressure of one form or another influencing their decisions to marry. They cited unrelenting pressure from their friends, families and themselves. Derivatives ˌunreˈlentingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adverb] > inflexibly unmovablyc1425 inflexiblya1535 inexorably1610 rigidly1610 unpersuadably1619 unrelentingly1637 impersuasibly1659 full-mouthedly1681 unpliantly1755 uncompromisingly1834 indomitably1837 imperviously1840 unyieldingly1884 tough1943 the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adverb] > mercilessly > unrelentingly irrelentlessly1624 unrelentingly1637 relentlessly1737 the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [adverb] > with no softening of severity irrelentlessly1624 relentlessly1737 unpacifiedly1748 intemperately1765 unrelentingly1777 unmitigably1808 unabatedly1828 unmitigatedly1832 intemperably1897 1637 T. Jackson Serm. Luke xiii. 5 61 It is one thing to be rebellious, another to bee unrelentingly rebellious. 1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Furies in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 409 Cloath'd in terrors we appear, Unrelentingly severe. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 49 The Albanian soldiery..unrelentingly pursued their object. 1940 Washington Post 1 Mar. 18/1 The blonde star has a role that is unremittingly serious in a film that is unrelentingly grim. 2002 N.Y. Mag. 14 Oct. 121/1 Humorless, blandly self-confessional, unrelentingly grim emo rock. ˌunreˈlentingness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [noun] > mercilessness > unrelentingness unrelentance1637 unrelentingness1649 relentlessness1805 1649 J. Goodwin Ὑβριστοδίκαι: Obstructours of Justice 126 To project and practice revenge upon such persons, by whom they have been worsted from time to time, with so much the more subtility, industrie, and unrelentingnesse of spirit. 1758 Centinel (ed. 2) II. 187 Particular regard will be had to the dispatch and unrelentingness with which the fair destroyer has done her business. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner viii. 131 He had constantly suffered annoyance from witnessing his father's sudden fits of unrelentingness. 2007 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 24 Feb. m22 Despite the good humour, or because of its unrelentingness perhaps, I began to tire of it part way through. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1590
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