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Relentment

Re-lent′ment

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Noun.
The act or process of relenting; the state of having relented.
Sir T. Browne.

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relentment

relentment

English

Noun

relentment (plural relentments)

  1. The act of relenting, softening.
    • 1658: Some being of the opinion of Thales, that water was the originall of all things, thought it most equall to submit unto the principle of putrefaction, and conclude in a moist relentment. — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 4)