unrelenting

CEFRC1

/ˌʌnriˈlɛntɪŋ/

adjective

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In plain English

01
adjective
Continuing strongly without stopping or becoming weaker.
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adjective
Extra detail
Having no pity; not being or becoming lenient, mild, gentle, or merciful.

Examples

His unrelenting mildness infuriates me! Where is his drive? Where is his passion?
We're in the second week of an unrelenting heat wave.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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In context

There’s faith in their unrelenting woes, / There’s Life in the Old Land yet!
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.

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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
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

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From un- + relenting.