relenting

noun

relenting

noun

1

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:

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