What part of speech is relents?

Relents can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. relents is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of relent (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does relents mean?

Definitions

Verb

relent - give in, as to influence or pressure

Noun

relents - Plural of relent.

Examples of relents

#   Sentence  
1. verb Tom would not relent.
2. verb So spake he, on his purpose firmly bent. / We – wife, child, family and I – with prayer / and tears entreat the father to relent, / nor doom us all the common wreck to share, / and urge the ruin that the Fates prepare.
3. verb Tom wouldn't relent.
Sentence  
verb
Tom would not relent.
So spake he, on his purpose firmly bent. / We – wife, child, family and I – with prayer / and tears entreat the father to relent, / nor doom us all the common wreck to share, / and urge the ruin that the Fates prepare.
Tom wouldn't relent.

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