CRUELTY, n. L.
1. Inhumanity a savage or barbarous disposition or temper, which is gratified in giving unnecessary pain 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 of a human being which inflicts unnecessary pain any act intended to torment, vex or afflict, or which actually torments or afflicts, without necessity wrong injustice oppression.
With force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. Ezekiel 34 .