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1 Cruelty -- rank: 1000

Cruelty definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CRUELTY, n. [L.] 1. Inhumanity; a savage or barbarous disposition or ... or distress to others; barbarity; applied to persons; as the cruelty of savages; the cruelty and envy of the people. 2. Barbarous deed; any act ... afflicts, without necessity; wrong; injustice; oppression. With force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. Ezek 34. WordNet (r) 3.0 ... cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering [syn: cruelty, inhuman treatment] 2: feelings of extreme heartlessness [syn: cruelty, ...

2 CRUEL; CRUELTY -- rank: 886

CRUEL; CRUELTY definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia kroo'-el, kroo'-el-ti ... with wrath and fierce anger" (Isa 13:9). The word "cruelty" has nearly disappeared from the Bible. In the Revised Version ... individuals and the elect nation which are marked by gross cruelty, particularly when measured by the leaders are standards of our ... Christ (Lu 9:55). While many of the acts of cruelty and barbarity recorded in the Old Testament are indicative of ...

3 cruelty-free -- rank: 857

cruelty-free definitions Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 1983 developed or produced without inhumane testing on animals < cruelty-free cosmetics >

4 Barbarity -- rank: 670

... ITY, n. [See Barbarian.] The manners of a barbarian; savageness; cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. 2. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [The use of ... plural -ties) Date: circa 1570 1. barbarism 2. a. barbarous cruelty ; inhumanity b. an act or instance of such cruelty Oxford Reference Dictionary n. (pl. -ies) 1 savage cruelty. 2 an example of this. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Barbarity ... state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization. 2. Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have ... N-VAR [disapproval] Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Cruelty, savageness, barbarousness, brutality, brutishness, ferociousness, ferocity, inhumanity, truculence, hardness ...

5 Savagery -- rank: 638

... SAV'AGERY, n. 1. Wild growth, as of plants. 2. Cruelty; barbarity. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the property ... of drums" [syn: savageness, savagery] 2: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagery] 3: a brutal barbarous savage ... a. the quality of being savage b. an act of cruelty or violence 2. an uncivilized state Webster's 1913 Dictionary ... work of primeval savagery. --C. Kingsley. 2. An act of cruelty; barbarity. The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall ... s Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Savagism, barbarism. 2. Cruelty, barbarity. Moby Thesaurus Gothicism, Neanderthalism, acuteness, age of ignorance, animality ... bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, cruelness, cruelty, dark, dark age, darkness, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, ...

6 Inhumanity -- rank: 638

Inhumanity definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary INHUMAN'ITY, n. Cruelty in disposition; savageness of heart; used of persons. 1. Cruelty in act; barbarity; used of actions. WordNet (r) 3.0 ... syn: inhumaneness, inhumanity] [ant: humaneness] 2: an act of atrocious cruelty [syn: atrocity, inhumanity] Merriam Webster's noun (plural -ties) Date ... F. inhumanit['e].] The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ... s Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Barbarity, brutality, savageness, cruelty, ferocity. 2. Hard-heartedness, hardness of heart, unkindness. Moby Thesaurus ... bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, cruelness, cruelty, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, furiousness, harshness, ...

7 sadism -- rank: 565

... on a love object) — compare masochism 2. a. delight in cruelty b. excessive cruelty • sadist noun • sadistic adjective • sadistically adverb Oxford Reference Dictionary n ... suffering on others (cf. MASOCHISM). 2 colloq. the enjoyment of cruelty to others. Derivatives: sadist n. sadistic adj. sadistically adv. Etymology ... bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, coprophilia, cruelness, cruelty, exhibitionism, ferociousness, ferocity, fetishism, fiendishness, fierceness, heterosexuality, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality ... lesbianism, masochism, narcissism, necrophilia, paraphilia, passive algolagnia, pedophilia, ruthlessness, sadistic cruelty, sadomasochism, sanguineousness, sapphism, savagery, scotophilia, sexual inversion, sexual normality, sexual ... ways, transvestitism, tribadism, tribady, truculence, vandalism, viciousness, violence, voyeurism, wanton cruelty, zooerastia, zoophilia

8 Ferocity -- rank: 565

... ITY, n. [L. ferocitas.] 1. Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as the ferocity of barbarians. 2. Fierceness indicating a savage ... F. ferocit['e]. See Fierce.] Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a ... Synonyms n. 1. Savageness, fierceness, ferociousness, wildness, rapacity. 2. Barbarity, cruelty, inhumanity. Moby Thesaurus aggression, aggressiveness, animality, antagonism, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness ... bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, chauvinism, combativeness, contentiousness, cruelness, cruelty, ferociousness, fiendishness, fierceness, fight, hostility, inhumaneness, inhumanity, jingoism, martialism, militancy, militarism, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, ruthlessness, saber rattling, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, truculence, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, vandalism, viciousness, violence, wanton cruelty, warmongering, warpath

9 Nero -- rank: 521

... ro, n. A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant. -- Ne ... to give light at night .... whence (after scenes of extreme cruelty) commiseration was stirred for them, although guilty and deserving the ... on account of the public welfare but to gratify the cruelty of one (Nero)" (Tacitus, Annals xv.44). Such is the ... leading to burdensome taxation and financial insecurity; (2) tyranny and cruelty of his favorites; (3) the great fire which brought dissatisfaction ... nameless vice of antiquity--love of a male favorite. His cruelty, both directly and through his instruments, made the latter part ...

10 Brutality -- rank: 521

... r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagery] 2: a brutal barbarous savage ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, brutishness, ferocity, truculence, hardness of heart. Moby Thesaurus Adam, Gothicism ... brutishness, cannibalism, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, coarseness, contemptibleness, cruelness, cruelty, despicableness, destructiveness, detestableness, direness, disgustingness, dreadfulness, earthiness, egregiousness, extremity, fallen ... postlapsarian state, rankness, repulsiveness, rigor, rottenness, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, savagism, scandalousness, scurviness, severity, shabbiness, shamefulness, sharpness, shoddiness ... unrefinement, unspirituality, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, vileness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, wildness, worthlessness, wretchedness

11 Vandalism -- rank: 521

Vandalism definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary VAN'DALISM, n. Ferocious cruelty; indiscriminate destruction of lives and property. WordNet (r) 3.0 ... ism, n. The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or ... blue ruin, breakup, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, carnage, consumption, cruelness, cruelty, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, destructiveness, devastation, discourtesy ... roughhouse, roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, ruin, ruination, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, severity, shambles, sharpness, slaughter, spoliation, terrorism, truculence, undoing ... ungentleness, vehemence, venial sin, venom, vice, viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrongdoing

12 Atrocity -- rank: 521

... 1828 Dictionary ATROC'ITY, n. Enormous wickedness; extreme hainousness or cruelty; as the atrocity of murder. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005 ... atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness] 2: an act of atrocious cruelty [syn: atrocity, inhumanity] Merriam Webster's noun (plural -ties) Date ... fr. atrox, atrocis, cruel.] 1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty. 2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which ... s Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Heinousness, atrociousness, horrible cruelty, enormity, flagrancy, villany, flagitiousness, depravity, wickedness, savagery, ferocity. 2. Atrocious ... breach, brickbat, brutality, contempt, contumely, corruption, crime, crime against humanity, cruelty, crying evil, cut, damage, deadly sin, defilement, delinquency, dereliction, desecration ...

13 Massacer -- rank: 466

... the slaughter of numbers of human beings, with circumstances of cruelty; the indiscriminate killing of human beings, without authority or necessity ... contrary to the usages of nations, and of course with cruelty. The practice of killing prisoners, even when authorized by the ... commander, is properly massacre; as the authority given proceeds from cruelty. We have all heard of the massacre of the protestants ... SACRE, v.t. To murder human beings with circumstances of cruelty; to kill men with indiscriminate violence, without authority or necessity ...

14 Ruthlessness -- rank: 466

... pity [syn: pitilessness, ruthlessness] 2: feelings of extreme heartlessness [syn: cruelty, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness] Merriam Webster's noun see ruthless Collin ... bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, cruelness, cruelty, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, flintiness, hardness, harshness, heartlessness, inclemency, inexorableness, inhumaneness, inhumanity, mercilessness, pitilessness, relentlessness, remorselessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, short shrift, tender mercies, truculence, uncompassionateness, unfeelingness, unforgivingness, unmercifulness, unremorsefulness, unsympatheticness, unyieldingness, vandalism, viciousness, violence, wanton cruelty

15 Bloody -- rank: 466

... disposition; applied to animals. 2. Attended with bloodshed; marked by cruelty; applied to things; as a bloody battle. BLOOD'Y, v ... or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle. 5. Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for ... it is th e story of brute force and ruthless cruelty. "The prey departeth not." And now every cruelty which they have visited upon others is to be turned ...