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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Cruelty; inhumanity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Cruelty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state of being cruel; cruelty

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

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