Word Meanings - CRUELNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cruelty. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to CRUELNESS)

• CRUELTY
  1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak. 2. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.