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Monster :: Monster (n.) Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty..

Persecute :: Persecute (v. t.) To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship..

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment..

Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..

Flatness :: Flatness (n.) Depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.

Untruth :: Untruth (n.) The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty..

Inhumanity :: Inhumanity (n.) The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity.

Oxymoron :: Oxymoron (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness..

Equation :: Equation (n.) A quantity to be applied in computing the mean place or other element of a celestial body; that is, any one of the several quantities to be added to, or taken from, its position as calculated on the hypothesis of a mean uniform motion, in order to find its true position as resulting from its actual and unequal motion..

Own :: Own (v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love..

Unmerciful :: Unmerciful (a.) Not merciful; indisposed to mercy or grace; cruel; inhuman; merciless; unkind.

Tyranny :: Tyranny (n.) Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster..

Palinurus :: Palinurus (n.) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.

Boarish :: Boarish (a.) Swinish; brutal; cruel.

Misjudge :: Misjudge (v. t. & i.) To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.

Establish :: Establish (a.) To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc..

Apparent :: Apparent (a.) Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun..

Cnidaria :: Cnidaria (n. pl.) A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata..

Altarage :: Altarage (n.) The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes..

Revolting :: Revolting (a.) Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty..

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