Crossword-Solution: CRUELNESS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

For it turneth the soul out of cruelness into mildness, out of covetousness into largeness, out of pride into meekness, and out of dread into boldness.

The boar is so fierce a beast, and also so cruel, that for his fierceness and his cruelness, he despiseth and setteth nought by death, and he reseth full piteously against the point of a spear of the hunter.

And though it be so that he be smitten or sticked with a spear through the body, yet for the greater ire and cruelness in heart that he hath, he reseth on his enemy, and taketh comfort and heart and strength for to wreak himself on his adversary with his tusks, and putteth himself in peril of death with a wonder fierceness against the weapon of his enemy, and hath in his mouth two crooked tusks right strong and sharp, and breaketh and rendeth cruelly with them those which he withstandeth.

The cock, when he scrapeth, and happeth meat to find, Calleth for his hens: lo! see the gentle kind! Should human creatures then be of cruelness? Should not they to their neighbours show charity, And specially to them wrapped in sickness, When[67] they that may heal them cause the infirmity? MEL.

This tendency to slur over words appears to be Miss Owen's one poetical vice, as exemplified in the imperfect rendering of "jewel", "realness", and "cruelness" elsewhere.