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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Crudelité, -itie, n. Also: -yté, -ietie; crudilité, -itie. [e.m.E. crudelitie, late ME. crudelyté (Caxton), OF. crudelité, L. crūdēlitas. App. more common in Sc. than Eng.] Cruelty.(a) a1500 Bk. Chess 363.
It semys nocht crudelite In till a king or in a lord to be 1513 Doug. xii. ix. 10.
With sa gret motioun of crudelyte 1533 Boece vii. iii. 224 b.
Be crudelitie of Gothis Rome … was wynnyng 1535 Stewart 4009.
Vicious and vane, full of crudelitie Ib. 7362; etc.
Not till vse owir greit crudelitie 1548 Acts II. 481/1.
The mortall weiris, crudeliteis, depredatiounis and intollerabill iniuris 1562-3 Winȝet I. 28/32.
Deliuering … thaim fra the crudelitie of Holofernes a1578 Pitsc. II. 69/4.
Behaulding the woodnes and gret crudelitie of the bischopis 1596 Dalr. I. 168/10.
A certanee tirannous crudelitie, quhilke was in him(b) a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1171.
Reddy to schaw thair gret crudilite 1513 Doug. xii. ix. 10 (Sm).
With sa gret motioun of crudilite 1533 Boece 9.
His dissymilit crudilite and slachter of his nobillis 1564 Reg. Privy C. I. 286.
The said Robert … hes usit greit crudilitie and hostilitie upoun thame
