cruelty 音标拼音: [kr'ulti] [kr'uəlti]
n . 残酷,野蛮,残酷的行为
残酷,野蛮,残酷的行为
cruelty n 1 :
a cruel act ;
a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering [
synonym : {
cruelty }, {
inhuman treatment }]
2 :
feelings of extreme heartlessness [
synonym : {
cruelty },
{
mercilessness }, {
pitilessness }, {
ruthlessness }]
3 :
the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance [
synonym : {
cruelty }, {
cruelness }, {
harshness }]
Cruelty \
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n .;
pl . {
Cruelties } (-
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[
OF .
cruelt ['
e ],
F .
cruaut ['
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fr .
L .
crudelitas ,
fr .
crudelis .
See {
Cruel }.]
[
1913 Webster ]
1 .
The attribute or quality of being cruel ;
a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others ;
inhumanity ;
barbarity .
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1913 Webster ]
Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty .
--
Shak .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
A cruel and barbarous deed ;
inhuman treatment ;
the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain .
[
1913 Webster ]
Cruelties worthy of the dungeons of the Inquisition .
Macaulay .
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1913 Webster ]
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "
cruelty ":
animality ,
atrociousness ,
atrocity ,
barbarity ,
barbarousness ,
beastliness ,
bestiality ,
bloodiness ,
bloodlust ,
bloodthirst ,
bloodthirstiness ,
bloody -
mindedness ,
brutality ,
brutalness ,
brutishness ,
cannibalism ,
cruelness ,
ferociousness ,
ferocity ,
fiendishness ,
fierceness ,
flintiness ,
hardness ,
harshness ,
heartlessness ,
inclemency ,
inexorableness ,
inhumaneness ,
inhumanity ,
mercilessness ,
pitilessness ,
relentlessness ,
remorselessness ,
ruthlessness ,
sadism ,
sadistic cruelty ,
sanguineousness ,
savagery ,
short shrift ,
tender mercies ,
truculence ,
uncompassionateness ,
unfeelingness ,
unforgivingness ,
unmercifulness ,
unremorsefulness ,
unsympatheticness ,
unyieldingness ,
vandalism ,
viciousness ,
violence ,
wanton cruelty CRUELTY .
This word has different meanings ,
as it is applied to different things .
Cruelty may be ,
1 .
From husband towards the wife ,
or vice versa .
2 .
From superior towards inferior ,
3 .
From master towards slave .
4 .
To animals .
These will be separately considered .
2 .-
1 .
Between husband and wife ,
those acts which affect the life ,
the health ,
or even the comfort of the party aggrieved ,
and give a reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt ,
are called cruelty .
What merely wounds the feelings is seldom admitted to be cruelty ,
unless the act be accompanied with bodily injury ,
either actual or menaced .
Mere austerity of temper ,
petulance of manners ,
rudeness of language ,
a want of civil attention and accommodation ,
even occasional sallies of passion ,
will not amount to legal cruelty ;
17 Conn .
189 ;
a fortiori ,
the denial of little indulgences and particular accommodations ,
which the delicacy of the world is apt to number among its necessaries ,
is not cruelty .
The negative descriptions of cruelty are perhaps the best ,
under the infinite variety of cases that may occur ,
by showing what is not cruelty .
1 Hagg .
R .
35 ;
S .
C .
4 Eccles .
R .
311 ,
312 ;
2 Hagg .
Suppl .
1 ;
S .
C .
4 Eccles .
R .
238 ;
1 McCord '
s Ch .
R .
205 ;
2 J .
J .
Marsh .
R .
324 ;
2 Chit .
Pr .
461 ,
489 ;
Poynt .
on Mar . &
Div .
c .
15 ,
p .
208 ;
Shelf .
on Mar . &
Div .
425 ;
1 Hagg .
Cons .
R .
37 ,
458 ;
2 Ragg .
Cons .
Rep .
154 ;
1 Phillim .
111 ,
132 ;
8 N H .
Rep .
307 ;
3 Mass .
321 ;
4 Mass .
487 .
It is to be remarked that exhibitions of passion and gusts of anger ,
which would be sufficient to create irreconcilable hatred between persons educated and trained to respect each other '
s feelings ,
would ,
with persons of coarse manners and habits ,
have but a momentary effect .
An act which towards the latter would cause but a momentary difference ,
would with the former ,
be excessive cruelty .
1 Briand Med .
Leg .
1 ere part .
c .
2 ,
art .
3 .
3 .-
2 .
Cruelty towards weak and helpless persons takes place where a party bound to provide for and protect them ,
either abuses them by whipping them unnecessarily ,
or by neglecting to provide for them those necessaries which their helpless condition requires .
To expose a person of tender years ,
under a party '
s care ,
to the inclemency of the weather ;
2 Campb .
650 ;
or to keep such a child ,
unable to provide for himself ,
without adequate food ;
1 Leach ,
137 ;
Russ . &
Ry .
20 or an overseer neglecting to provide food and medical care to a pauper having urgent and immediate occasion for them ;
Russ . &
Ry .
46 ,
47 ,
48 ;
are examples of this species of cruelty .
4 .-
3 .
By the civil code of Louisiana ,
art .
192 ,
it is enacted ,
that when the master shall be convicted of cruel treatment of his slave ,
the judge may pronounce ,
besides the penalty established for such cases ,
that the slave shall be sold at public auction ,
in order to place him out of the reach of the power which his master has abused .
5 .-
4 .
Cruelty to animals is an indictable offence .
A defendant was convicted of a misdemeanor for tying the tongue of a calf so near the root as to prevent its sucking ,
in order to sell the cow at a greater price ,
by giving to her udder the appearance of being full of milk ,
while affording the calf all he needed .
6 Rogers ,
City Hall Rec .
62 .
A man may be indicted for cruelly beating his horse .
3 Rogers ,
City Rec .
191 .
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