relentings

No word is spoken, but the little bosom heaves, the little heart softens, the little eyes grow tenderly penitent, the little hands come up and clasp my neck, and my relentings and my sorrow have produced after their kind.

Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

In many instances the treatment of the prisoners is said to have been harsh; in some it was tempered by the relentings of Rob Roy.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

There were pausings and relentings in it, and there were clear spaces in the sky out of which the stars began to shine keen and clear.

VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

He is so completely and gleefully a villain from the first, that he is not restrained from convenient crime by any scruples and relentings.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

These relentings, and the successive tides of feeling displayed in this high assembly, prove how divided the higher classes were on the points of hereditary monarchy, and others also at issue; but the Whig ascendancy prevailed.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

The father's relentings were kindled: upon which the minister sung --

Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York John Lyth

All wounds have scars but that of fantasy: all affections their relentings but that of womankind.

Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 Various

Banish the frailties of hope -- wither the relentings of love -- scorch the fountains of tears: curse him as only thou canst curse.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

Lady Joan would feel neither compunctions nor relentings.

T. Tembarom 1913

And I myself could sooner imitate than blame those innocent relentings of nature, so that they spring from tenderness only and humanity, not from an implacable sorrow.

Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905