Definition of "cruell" [cruell]

• Obsolete spelling of cruel. (adjective)

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• "Roger Williams noted that wars among Indians were “farre lesse bloudy and devouring than the cruell Warres of Europe.”"
• "Hee heard at a Considerable distance many blowes or stripes … hee thought hee heard a Negro Cry out many tymes … he supposed it to be James Wills beating his Negro woman, and heard still many Lashes more and Crying out, until hee was greevd and went into his owne house and shut the dore, and said to his wife oh! yond cruell man.175"
• "The Tartars seeing this, went and besieged the city wherein the said olde man was, tooke him, and put him to a most cruell and ignominious death."