1(act of) cruelty, wickedness:
(
1155;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
de Rome out la seinnurie; Puis i fist mainte cruelté Come li hoem de grant fierté
3157
(
c.1141;
MS: s.xiii4/4
) 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.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Iceo est Bucifal, […] Pur sa grant creualté l’ad enclos Phelippus
526
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