relentment
English
Etymology
relent + -ment
Noun
relentment (countable and uncountable, plural relentments)
- The act of relenting, softening.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 4)
- 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.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 4)