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cruelté (c.1141)

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cruelté (c.1141)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,1367b crudelis; Gdf: 2,388c crueleté; GdfC: 9,259a cruelté; TL: 2,1103 crüauté; DEAF: crüauté; DMF: cruauté; TLF: cruauté; OED: cruelty n.; MED: cruelte n.; DMLBS: 523b crudelitas ]

crualté, cruaulté, cruauté; cruealté, crueleté, cruelted; creualté; crueauté, crueuté, cruouté

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1(act of) cruelty, wickedness:

( 1155; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) de Rome out la seinnurie; Puis i fist mainte cruelté Come li hoem de grant fierté 3157

( c.1141; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) Antecrist [...], De malice plenté De tute cruelté 886

( 1326 ) vous estes robbeour et avetz par vostre cruealté robbé la tere 317.13

( s.xiv¹ ) cruelté n’est autre chose qe fierté de corage 24

♦wildness, ferocity:

( s.xii^3/4; MS: s.xiv² ) Iceo est Bucifal, […] Pur sa grant creualté l’ad enclos Phelippus 526

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