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“cruelness, cruelty” in Latin
crūdēlitāscruelty, severitysaevitiaA raging; rage, ferocity, fierceness, fury.; Violence, savageness, savagery, cruelty, severity.feritāswildness; savagery, brutality, ferocityimmānitāsimmensity, vastness, excess; monstrousness, enormity, fierceness, cruelty, barbarism, savageness, inhumanity, frightfulndūritāsharshnessatrōcitāsatrocity; hardship, suffering, tragedy, disaster
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cruelness, cruelty
crudelitas; saevitia; feritas; immanitas; duritas; atrocitas: [SYN. in CRUEL] (The words are found in this connection and order.) diritas et immanitas; feritas et immanitas; immanitas et crudelitas. To treat anybody with cruelty, crudelitatem suam in aliquo exercere; crudelitatem adhibere in aliquem (when other means are of no effect; e.g., of the master against his slave): to exercise or indulge in all manner of cruelties, in omne genus crudelitatis erumpere; nullum genus crudelitatis intermittere: to exercise the greatest cruelty, ultima crudelitate saevire against anybody, crudelitatem suam in aliquo expromere; crudelitatem explere in aliquo: to display a ferocious cruelty, sanguine et caede saevire (by bloodshed and murder): to exhibit unexampled cruelty, ultra humanarum irarum fidem saevire (Liv., 8, 14): Sulla, after the victory, indulged in unexampled cruelty, Sulla post victoriam audito fuit crudelior: to exercise and suffer unheard of cruelty, facere et pati infanda: with the greatest cruelty, crudelissime.
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- What is the Latin word for cruelness, cruelty?
- The usual Latin words for “cruelness, cruelty” are crūdēlitās, saevitia, feritās; also immānitās, dūritās, atrōcitās. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.