"overcruel" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English overcruel, equivalent to over- + cruel.",
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      "form": "more overcruel",
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          "ref": "1863, Edward Howard, The Old Commodore",
          "text": "But it is thou, oh, my brother who hast done this—this overcruel thing. Who now shall fill up the void in the chivalry of the country? […]",
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          "ref": "1872, Beunans Meriasek, Whitley Stokes, The Life of Saint Meriasek",
          "text": "Ah, I have been overcruel\nTo Christians, I believe.",
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          "ref": "1915, William John Locke, Jaffery",
          "text": "The very virtue that had made her overcruel to him in the past would have made her overkind to him in the future.",
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          "ref": "2013, Kate Bernheimer, xo Orpheus",
          "text": "[…] when he died last year, the final straw, as my husband said, ever cruel, overcruel, my mother was the one who cleaned out his home at his behest and when I asked her about the computer and what was on it, trying not to suggest I knew his secret or that he even […]",
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          "ref": "2013, William Albert Robinson, Deep Water and Shoal",
          "text": "The elder Cobos became over-cruel in his handling of the miserable horde, and several very unpleasant occurrences led to tragedy.",
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        "overly or excessively cruel"
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        {
          "word": "over-cruel"
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  "word": "overcruel"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English overcruel, equivalent to over- + cruel.",
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          "ref": "1863, Edward Howard, The Old Commodore",
          "text": "But it is thou, oh, my brother who hast done this—this overcruel thing. Who now shall fill up the void in the chivalry of the country? […]",
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          "text": "Ah, I have been overcruel\nTo Christians, I believe.",
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      "word": "over-cruel"
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  "word": "overcruel"
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