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Relent vs Regent - What's the difference?

relent | regent |

As nouns the difference between relent and regent

is that relent is stay; stop; delay while regent is regent.

As a verb relent

is to become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to soften in temper; to become more mild and tender; to feel compassion.

relent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Stay; stop; delay.

    • Derived terms

    * relentless

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to soften in temper; to become more mild and tender; to feel compassion.
    • He relented of his plan to murder his opponent, and decided just to teach him a lesson instead.
    I did, I suppose, hope that she might finally relent a little and make some conciliatory response or other. (from "The Remains of the Day"? by Kazuo Ishiguro)
  • * Shakespeare
    • Can you behold / My sighs and tears, and will not once relent ?
  • To slacken; to abate.
    • We waited for the storm to relent before we ventured outside.
    He will not relent in his effort to reclaim his victory.
  • (obsolete) To lessen, make less severe or fast.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iv:
    • But nothing might relent her hastie flight; / So deepe the deadly feare of that foule swaine / Was earst impressed in her gentle spright [...].
  • (dated) To become less rigid or hard; to soften; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce.
  • * Boyle
    • [Salt of tartar] placed in a cellar will begin to relent .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • When opening buds salute the welcome day, / And earth, relenting , feels the genial ray.

    regent

    English

    (wikipedia regent)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
  • *1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 139:
  • *:This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam.

    • Related terms

    * regimen * regiment * * region * rector * rectum * rectangle * rectilinear

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ruling; governing; regnant.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • Some other active regent principle which we call the soul.
  • Exercising vicarious authority.
    • (Milton)

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