relentlessly


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re·lent·less

 (rĭ-lĕnt′lĭs)
adj.
1. Unyielding in severity or strictness; unrelenting: relentless persecution.
2. Steady and persistent; unremitting: a relentless drumbeat.

re·lent′less·ly adv.
re·lent′less·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.relentlessly - in a relentless mannerrelentlessly - in a relentless manner; "he worked relentlessly"
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Translations
بصورةٍ قاسِيَه، بدون رأفَه
neoblomně
kiengesztelhetetlenül
vægîarlaust
neoblomne
acımasızcainsafsızca

relentlessly

[rɪˈlentlɪslɪ] ADV
1. (= heartlessly) → cruelmente, despiadadamente
2. (= persistently) → sin descanso
he presses on relentlesslyavanza implacable
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

relentlessly

[rɪˈlɛntləsli] adv
(= continuously) [rain] → sans discontinuer
The sun beat down relentlessly → Le soleil dardait implacablement ses rayons.
(= without giving up) [question, pursue] → implacablement
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

relentlessly

adv
(= uncompromisingly) oppose, maintainunnachgiebig
(= unrelentingly) hurt, rainunaufhörlich; to push relentlessly forwardunaufhaltsam vorwärtsdrängen
(= mercilessly)unerbittlich, erbarmungslos
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relent

(rəˈlent) verb
to become less severe or unkind; to agree after refusing at first. At first she wouldn't let them go to the cinema, but in the end she relented.
reˈlentless adjective
without pity; not allowing anything to keep one from what one is doing or trying to do. The police fight a relentless battle against crime.
reˈlentlessly adverb
reˈlentlessness noun
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References in classic literature ?
It was this: I asked myself whether there was not in his soul some deep-rooted instinct of creation, which the circumstances of his life had obscured, but which grew relentlessly, as a cancer may grow in the living tissues, till at last it took possession of his whole being and forced him irresistibly to action.
So relentlessly did my partner and I spring into our work throughout the week that by Saturday night we were frazzled wrecks.
One impression pursued her relentlessly. It was Levin's face, with his scowling brows, and his kind eyes looking out in dark dejection below them, as he stood listening to her father, and glancing at her and at Vronsky.
Rebecca, who knew nothing of their business affairs, merely saw her aunts grow more and more saving, pinching here and there, cutting off this and that relentlessly. Less meat and fish were bought; the woman who had lately been coming two days a week for washing, ironing, and scrubbing was dismissed; the old bonnets of the season before were brushed up and retrimmed; there were no drives to Moderation or trips to Portland.
At first, indeed, she had seemed to take a pleasure in mortifying my vanity and crushing my presumption - relentlessly nipping off bud by bud as they ventured to appear; and then, I confess, I was deeply wounded, though, at the same time, stimulated to seek revenge; - but latterly finding, beyond a doubt, that I was not that empty-headed coxcomb she had first supposed me, she had repulsed my modest advances in quite a different spirit.
There is no school in all our land where the young ladies do not feel obliged to close their compositions with a sermon; and you will find that the sermon of the most frivolous and the least religious girl in the school is always the longest and the most relentlessly pious.
Human beings--human children especially--seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a power which they are conscious of possessing, even though that power consist only in a capacity to make others wretched; a pupil whose sensations are duller than those of his instructor, while his nerves are tougher and his bodily strength perhaps greater, has an immense advantage over that instructor, and he will generally use it relentlessly, because the very young, very healthy, very thoughtless, know neither how to sympathize nor how to spare.
It was a scheme conceived in a flash, and ever since relentlessly pursued, to burrow under Mary's influence with the boy, expose her to him in all her vagaries, take him utterly from her and make him mine.
He would make this appalling viscus beat and throb before the shrinking journalists--no uncle with a big watch and a little ever baby ever harped upon it so relentlessly; whatever evasion they attempted he set aside.
"Am I Miss Wylie?" demanded Agatha, relentlessly continuing the torture.
Relentlessly he was rushing me toward the side of the vessel and death.
For several minutes they fought thus until the younger man succeeded in getting both hands upon the throat of his adversary, and then, choking relentlessly, he raised the brute with him from the ground and rushed him fiercely backward against the stem of a tree.