relenting

For an instant she stood and looked at her husband, in what might have been relenting or anticipation of the road she had to take.

No relenting on the part of the Rebels, but savage, infuriate joy at the sight of the warm heart's blood of their victims!

Is there no pity, no relenting ruth, Points to the parents fondling o'er their child?

The boys came rather sheepishly to see him off; but he would make no show of relenting.

The strangest thing of all to me,” Mrs. Halliday declared, “is his relenting toward his daughter after all these years.