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relentlessness |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Relentless \Re*lent"less\, a. Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as a prey to relentless despotism. For this the avenging power employs his darts, . . . Thus will persist, relentless in his ire. --Dryden. -- {Re*lent"less*ly}, adv -- {Re*lent"less*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: relentlessness n : mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up "the relentlessness or their pursuit" [syn: {inexorability}, {inexorableness}]
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