Meanings
nounrelenting (plural relentings)
plural relentings
- The act of one who relents.
Oh, tell me, if there be any relentings of pity in your bosom, how could you endure it, to behold the agonies of the dying man, as, goaded by pain, he grasps the cold ground in convulsive energy […]
1816, Thomas Chalmers, Thoughts on Universal Peace
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of relent
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