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▪ I. relenting, vbl. n.|rɪˈlɛntɪŋ|
[f. relent v.1]
The action of the vb., in various senses.
1602Plat Delightes for Ladies Rec. iii, If you feare their relenting, take the Rose-leaues about Candlemas, and put them once again into a sieue. 1694Kettlewell Comp. Persecuted 161 Make it to work..Relenting and remorse in their Persecutors. 1703Rowe Ulyss. iv. i, What means this soft Relenting in my Soul? 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. viii. II. 354 The Saturday..passed over without any sign of relenting on the part of the government. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere xxxvii, The relenting grew upon him.
b. With a and pl. An instance of this.
a1586Sidney (J.), I have marked in you a relenting truly, and a slacking of the main career. 1600C'tess Essex in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. II. 58 Vouchsafe a relentinge to the not urginge..of that fatell warrant for Execution. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, cccxviii, Strange relentings teare the womb Of Nature. 1709Stanhope Paraphr. IV. 65 Whose Sins though they be more, yet our Relentings for them are slighter..than Theirs. 1761–2Hume Hist. Eng. lxvi. (1806) V. 37 But Charles next day felt a relenting in this assumed vigour. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Resources Wks. (Bohn) III. 203 In the first relentings of March..these osiers hang out their joyful flowers.
▪ II. reˈlenting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That relents, in various senses of the vb.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. i. 226 As the mournefull Crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers. 1630Prynne Anti-Armin. 179 The Scriptures indeed doe binde all faithfull, all relenting sinners to belieue. 1679J. Goodman Penitent Pard. ii. i. (1713) 142 The first essay of Repentance is a relenting thoughtfulness. 1702Rowe Tamerl. i. i, Like relenting Heav'n He seems unwilling to deface his Kind. 1781Cowper Charity 608 Relenting forms would lose their power, or cease. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, II. vi. 141 The Bishop..had put forth the signs of a relenting sympathy to his former masters.
Hence reˈlentingly adv.
1611Florio, Rilento,..relentingly. 1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets (1863) 56 What if, relentingly, we declare her innocent..? 1845Jane Robinson Whitehall xxvii, Ramona..turned relentingly towards the cavalier. |