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Webster 1913 Edition
Cruel
1.
Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.
Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are
cruel
and have no mercy. Jer. vi. 22,23.
2.
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
Cruel
wars, wasting the earth. Milton.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was
cruel
. Gen. xlix. 7.
3.
Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
You have seen
cruel
proof of this man’s strength. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Cruel
CRUEL
,Adj.
1.
Disposed to give pain to others, in body or mind; willing or pleased to torment, vex or afflict; inhuman; destitute of pity, compassion or kindness; fierce; ferocious; savage; barbarous; hardhearted; applied to persons or their dispositions.They are cruel, and have no mercy. Jeremiah 6.
2.
Inhuman; barbarous; savage; causing pain, grief or distress; exerted in tormenting, vexing or afflicting.Cursed be their wrath, for it was cruel. Genesis 44.
The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Proverbs 12.
Others had trials of cruel mockings. Hebrews 11.