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- noun Obsolete spelling of
cruelty .
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Examples
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If they should giue battell, it was to be doubted least through treason among themselues, the armie should be betraied into the enimies hands, the which would not faile to execute all kind of crueltie in the slaughter of the whole nation.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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Yea, sometime to shewe their crueltie, and to satisfie their vengeaunce, the bodies of suche their enemies, as thei haue taken, thei vse to roste by a greate fire: and when thei bee asembled a good nombre together, thei teare theim of the spittes like Wolues, with their tiethe, and deuoure them.
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Thus are thei alway sure of the victory, whiche thei knytte vp with moste proude crueltie.
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I must needs say they were men worthy of better fortune, and if they be liuing, let vs wish them safetie and a good returne: but if the crueltie of death hath taken holde of them, God send them a
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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That he could not a litle maruell at their inhumanitie and crueltie which they had shewed towards his men, seeing they were sent by him vnto them in peaceable manner to receiue their answere which they had promised to giue the day before: and that were it not for Don
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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What with the Crimme on the one side, and his crueltie on the other, he hath but few people left.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Selardal, diligently to aduance the same, by which meanes he did so procure vnto himselfe the hatred of Papists, as being constreined to giue place vnto their craft & crueltie, he departed ouer to Hamburg, from whence comming to Copen Hagen in
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Selardal, diligently to aduance the same, by which meanes he did so procure vnto himselfe the hatred of Papists, as being constreined to giue place vnto their craft & crueltie, he departed ouer to Hamburg, from whence comming to Copen Hagen in
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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When they besiege a towne or fort, they offer much parle, and send many flattering messages to perswade a surrendry: promising all things that the inhabitants will require: but being once possessed of the place, they vse all maner of hostilitie, and crueltie.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Prince, euery of them with common voice blaming the crueltie of the
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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