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Definition of Cruelly
1. Adverb. Excessively. "A cruelly bitter winter"
2. Adverb. With cruelty. "He treated his students cruelly"
Definition of Cruelly
1. adv. In a cruel manner.
Definition of Cruelly
1. Adverb. In a cruel manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cruelly
1. cruel [adv] - See also: cruel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cruelly
Literary usage of Cruelly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1816)
"... Adherents have most cruelly tyrannized over the Minds, and tortured the Bodies
of Men. VrE now proceed to the second branch of the power of the Church, ..."
2. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet by Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Joseph Dacier (1849)
"THE COMMONALTY OF PARIS ASSEMBLE IX GREAT NUMBERS, AND cruelly PUT TO DEATH THEIR
PRISONERS. ABOUT four o'clock on the 12th day of June, the populace of ..."
3. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"I do not intend to say more upon this topic, since it would be too offensive to
the supreme authorities of state ; enough that I was cruelly wronged at the ..."
4. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"They repeal the act of settlement—§ XXXIX. Pass an act of attainder against
absentees—§ XL. James coins base money. The Protestants of Ireland cruelly ..."
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