British spelling of 'crueler'; more cruel or showing greater cruelty than another.
British variant of the comparative form of 'cruel', with the doubled 'l' following traditional British spelling patterns where single-syllable adjectives ending in a consonant double that consonant before adding '-er'.
This spelling difference shows how British and American English split in the late 18th-19th centuries—the British kept the doubled consonant convention stricter, while Americans simplified it.
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