All 4 Uses of
relent
in
The Mill on the Floss
- But the fine old season meant well; and if he has not learned the secret how to bless men impartially, it is because his father Time, with ever-unrelenting unrelenting purpose, still hides that secret in his own mighty, slow-beating heart.†
Chpt 2.2unrelenting = no less intensestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrelenting means not and reverses the meaning of relenting. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- But the fine old season meant well; and if he has not learned the secret how to bless men impartially, it is because his father Time, with ever-unrelenting unrelenting purpose, still hides that secret in his own mighty, slow-beating heart.†
Chpt 2.2
- Then with a bright smile, "I think perhaps I could if he were very conceited; and yet, if he got extremely humiliated afterward, I should relent."†
Chpt 5.4 *
- He felt all the relenting in her look and tone; it was heaven opening again.†
Chpt 6.13
Definition:
to give in; or to be less intense