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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Re·lent·less, a. Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.
 For this the avenging power employs his darts, . . .
 Thus will persist, relentless in his ire.   --Dryden.
 -- Re*lent*less*ly, adv. -- Re*lent*less*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 relentlessness
      n : mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or
          let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit" [syn: inexorability,
           inexorableness]