unrelentingness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English unrelenting Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English unrelentingness From unrelenting + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being unrelenting.
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 […]
1852, Herman Melville, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, page 213: