Become less stern

Usage examples of relent.

Ole Golly finally relented and went back and got a blanket with which she lined the inside.

Seeing that she was about to seriously offend her henchwoman, Deanna relented.

But the gods made no answer and shewed no relenting, nor did they give any favouring sign when he prayed to them in dream, and invoked them sacrificially through the bearded priests of Nasht and Kaman-Thah, whose cavern-temple with its pillar of flame lies not far from the gates of the waking world.

At first he had been reluctant, but when told that El Mirador was not to be close-guarded at home, only out in public places, he relented.

I have done everything I can to avert war but the pakeha will not relent and are determined they should have land in the Taranaki, land the Maori do not wish to sell.

He guarded Cassandra like a mother, keeping everyone but Oric away from her, relenting only when his wife cried for Jancis.

Atretes said, relenting now that he had the information for which he had come.

And I see strange faces in my sleep and in my waking, all mocking at me, and they torture and aunt met and when I look at those faces I see no human relenting, no!

They rested not on the face of the editor nor on the pitying brows of his relenting judges.

I bullied Swithe and Cobweb to take me into Galhea with them and occasionally they would relent and we would go into the town, perhaps to eat at the best inn, where they treated us like royalty, or to walk in the market where traders would respectfully entreat us to inspect their wares.

Having got this grudge off his chest, Tapper relented and pulled in to allow Chipper to pass.

During frequent fits of temper, Sapphire called Toret all sorts of names and threw herself into sorrowful pouts until he relented to her whims.

Antipathetic at first towards the superintendent, and not encouraged to greater charity by the reports of persecution she received from her incipient boyfriend, DC Hat Bowler, she had relented her attitude in the aftermath of the Wordman case when she had come to see that, no matter what his outward semblance seemed to indicate, Dalziel was deeply defensive of his young officer and determined that no official crap should come his way.

In 1901, some eleven years after the expiration of the antisocialist laws, the state relented.

Whether she regretted having given him as much encouragement as lay in a rose dropped from her corsage, or whether she resented the introduction into the party of so unprepossessing a gentleman as Mr Gumley, no one could tell, but although she relented towards him from time to time, even allowing her hand to rest in his for a moment longer than was necessary when he handed her down from the barouche, she was for the most part a little pettish in her manner, and made it plain that he could do nothing to please her.