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relentlessness

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re·lent·less  (r-lntls)
adj.
1. Unyielding in severity or strictness; unrelenting: relentless persecution.
2. Steady and persistent; unremitting: the relentless beat of the drums.
re·lentless·ly adv.
re·lentless·ness n.
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Noun1.relentlessness - mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit"
inexorability, inexorableness
unmercifulness, mercilessness - inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving
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But at that he would gladly have had them all back in the land of the living could he thus have been freed from the menace of the frightful creatures who pursued him with awful relentlessness, screaming and growling at him every time they came within sight of him.
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