unrelentingness

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English

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Etymology

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From unrelenting +‎ -ness.

Noun

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unrelentingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unrelenting.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, page 213:
      It plausibly pressed upon him, that as all the evidences of his mother's dying unrelentingness toward him were negative; and the only positive evidence—so to speak—of even that negativeness, was the will which omitted all mention of Pierre []