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cruelty

English

Alternative forms

  • cruellty (obsolete)
  • cruelltie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English cruelte, from Old French crualté (French cruauté), from Latin crudelitas. Surface analysis: cruel +? -ty.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k?u?(?)lti/

Noun

cruelty (countable and uncountable, plural cruelties)

  1. (uncountable) An indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering.
    Synonyms: mercilessness, barbarism, ruthlessness
    Antonym: mercy
  2. (countable) A cruel act.

Translations

Anagrams

  • cutlery

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hardship

English

Etymology

From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard +? -ship.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?h??d???p/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??d???p/
  • Hyphenation: hard?ship

Noun

hardship (countable and uncountable, plural hardships)

  1. Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

Antonyms

  • softship

Translations

Verb

hardship (third-person singular simple present hardships, present participle hardshipping, simple past and past participle hardshipped)

  1. (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
    • 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)
      […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]

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