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Definition
to continue without stopping in an extreme manner — often of something that is harsh or oppressive
- Tom kept his ears open when idlers sauntered out of the court-room, but invariably heard distressing news—the toils were closing more and more relentlessly around poor Potter.Chapter 23 (49% in)
- There is no school in all our land where the young ladies do not feel obliged to close their compositions with a sermon; and you will find that the sermon of the most frivolous and the least religious girl in the school is always the longest and the most relentlessly pious.Chapter 21 (48% in)
There are no more uses of "relentless" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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