unrelenting
adjEtymology From un- + relenting.
1
Not relenting; not yielding in strength, severity, or determination.
- There’s faith in their unrelenting woes, / There’s Life in the Old Land yet!1908, James Ryder Randall, “There’s Life in the Old Land Yet”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md.; New York: John Murphy Company, page 23:
2
Having no pity; not being or becoming lenient, mild, gentle, or merciful.
- Tears may not bring again Sardathrion. But this the gods may do who have seen, and seen with unrelenting eyes, the sorrows of ten thousand worlds—thy gods may weep for thee.1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 5:
- Derived terms
- unrelentless
- Related terms
- relent, unrelentingly, unrelentingness