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1611. Florio, Incrudele, vncruell, milde.
1720. Mrs. Manley, Power of Love (1741), 272. If this Gentleman had pressed her to make Him happy, the uncruel fair One would not have been so hard-hearted to deny him.
1863. Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., xiv. 363. Such a destiny would have been a sorry climax to thy uncruel misdemeanours.