Definition of "crueltie" [crueltie]

• Obsolete spelling of cruelty. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "Thus are thei alway sure of the victory, whiche thei knytte vp with moste proude crueltie."