2 uses
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Definition
to continue without stopping in an extreme manner — often of something that is harsh or oppressive
- Now the rest continually around the dead man with their keen spears made onset relentlessly and slew each the other.Book 17 (55% in)
- Nay, it behoveth to bury him who is dead, steeling our hearts, when once we have wept him for a day; but such as are left alive from hateful war must take thought of meat and drink, that yet more against our foes we may fight relentlessly ever, clad in unyielding bronze.Book 19 (55% in)
There are no more uses of "relentless" in The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers).
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