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Answer for the clue "Mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up ", 13 letters:
inexorability

Word definitions for inexorability in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality or state of being inexorable.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit" [syn: relentlessness , inexorableness ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inexorability \In*ex`o*ra*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. inexorabilitas: cf. F. inexorabilit['e].] The quality of being inexorable, or unyielding to entreaty. --Paley.

Usage examples of inexorability.

The inexorability of happenstance, the way events have of deflecting you from your course, had corrupted him and left him good for nothing.

This Gangetic, Mississippian inexorability, whose dwindling, he sadly knew, was what had gone wrong in his marriage.

One whirled with sawbladelike inexorability straight into the path of Ship One, which pulled straight up in an acute arc.

It was the inexorability of that insensate fall that infuriated, defeated, depressed, and frustrated.

My years in the saddle would end, maybe in four years, maybe five, whenever my body stopped mending fast from the falls, and I was far from ready to face the inexorability of the march of days.

They are tremendously real, somewhat the way a violent physical pain or a surprising natural event, a storm or earthquake, seem to us charged with an entirely different sort of reality, presence, inexorability, from ordinary times and conditions.