Definition of "cruelties" [cruelties]

• Plural form of cruelty. (noun)

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• "All their severities called cruelties: mutually accusing each other; each him and herself; and all to raise her character, and torment themselves."
• "[188] 'I will grant that everything has been done with justice, which cannot be punished without again shedding the blood of citizens;' that is, the cruelties then committed by the optimates in crushing"
• "While heartily approving of such reasonable punishment as shall deter crime, I can command no language strong and severe enough to condemn in fitting terms the cruelties and deviltries heaped upon the Negro in certain sections of the South in the name and for the sake of those who profit by the convict lease system."