All 3 Uses of
relent
in
The Shack
- It took some coaxing, but Mack finally relented and retold the story as they all stared up into the mists shrouding the falling cascade.†
Chpt 2. *
- He had gratefully accepted Officer Dalton's offer to take his children down to a local diner for some food and now sitting down on the edge of the bed, he was swept helplessly away in the unrelenting and merciless grip of growing despair, slowly rocking back and forth.†
Chpt 4.unrelenting = 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.
- The woman was unrelenting.†
Chpt 11.
Definition:
to give in; or to be less intense