Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being relentless, or unmoved by pity.
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- noun The condition of being
relentless .
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- noun mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up
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Examples
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Caroline: Yes, very insightful, "relentlessness" - is the word I would have used if I could have thought of it.
BP and brain problems: "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!" Elizabeth McClung 2008
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The execution is sometimes clumsy and story threads occasionally fumble about but the sheer determination to go further with the premise, pushing beyond the barricades of mediocrity and aspire for at least some of the weightiness of the source material, that kind of relentlessness ultimately made it a success.
Row Three » Review: Blindness - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008
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Russell Williams is now an admitted double murderer, rapist and sexual fetishist, but it's the scale of his obsession, the depth of his deviance and his utter relentlessness which is so terrifying.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Christie Blatchford 2010
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Sally had a kind of relentlessness to her, and I say that and it sounds like it could be a negative thing.
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Izzard put his running success down to "relentlessness" and said he felt good after the seven-and-a-half week challenge.
unknown title 2009
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He put his running success down to "relentlessness" and said he felt good after the seven-and-a-half week challenge.
unknown title 2009
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Ashes last summer," he said, before calling the relentlessness of the schedule "incredibly short sighted".
Evening Standard - Home Dan Jones 2011
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"relentlessness" of the campaign had led to the loss of a great head-teacher.
Kos RSS Feed 2010
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The sheer relentlessness of it comes to be a thing of beauty and hilarity.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Who Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World? Michael Giltz 2011
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The sheer relentlessness of it comes to be a thing of beauty and hilarity.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Who Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World? Michael Giltz 2011
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