Definition of "rudelier"

And whan Arthur sawe hym, his harte quickened, and toke gret pyte of the payne & labour that he sawe hym take & endure so longe: and therwith he layde on more rudelier than he had done before of al the day: for such was his maner, the more he had to do, the more grew euer his strength & hardines.

a. 1534, John Bourchier, Lord Berners, transl., The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. […], London: […] White, Cochrane, and Co., […], published 1814, page 506

They haue many wiues, thoſe wittie, warie in trading, bold and couragious: one of them rudelier handled by a Hollander, with a Iauelin had diſpatched him, if her force had not beene intercepted.

1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “The Voyage of Oliver Noort round about the Globe, beeing the fourth Circum-Nauigation of the same, extracted out of the Latine Diarie”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 1st part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], 2nd book, page 77, lines 33–35

The same rude Storme to Sea great Mary drove, / The Sea could noe such dangerous tempest move. / The same drove Charles into the North, and then / Would rudelier farr have driven him backe agen.

a. 1668, Abraham Cowley, edited by Allan Pritchard, The Civil War, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, published 1973, page 77, lines 153–156

Fran[cisco]. Who’s that Knocks ſo Rudely? / Guzm[an]. One that has been rudelier Knock’d himſelf; […]

1669, [Roger Boyle, 1st] Earl of Orrery, Guzman. A Comedy. Acted at the Theatre-Royal., London: […] Francis Saunders […], published 1693, page 31

Your highness broods too much: adversity / Acts on you as harness acts upon the steed / That is as yet unbroken, it inciting, / Even by its very, uncomprehended touch, / To violent and self-injurious efforts / To cast it off, which only make the Tamer / To strengthen it, and rudelier ply the bit / ’Till the proud beast consents to do its paces.

1857, [Charles Heavysege], Saul. A Drama. In Three Parts., Montreal, Que.: Henry Rose, […], pages 46–47

There will be care, but she will not know, / There will be winds that will rudelier blow, / And winter snows will coldlier beat, / Yet her rest shall be soft and sweet.

1859, Albert Sutliffe, “Our Sister”, in Poems, Boston, Mass., Cambridge, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, page 91

But e’er behind his rows of fashioned gods, / His rude conceptions, rudelier put in clay; / Insensible unto his prayers and nods, / A broader being throbs through night and day; / And they are truest devotees who say, / “Where’er the Principle of Being warms, / Man, beast, the flower, the tree, or what you may, / All things, my fellows, though in varied forms, / Nor can I boast a pulse more god-like, than the storm’s!”

1900, J[ohn] G[neisenau] Neihardt, “Procreation”, in The Divine Enchantment: A Mystical Poem, New York, N.Y.: James T[erry] White & Co., page 29

A stream ran out to meet the sea’s long moan, / Lulling with a soft burden of its own; / From bending branches breathed the fragrant air / Not rudelier than when a dreamer’s hair / Across a dreamer’s unwaked eyes is blown.

1905 September 9, Edith M[atilda] Thomas, “The Place of Comfort”, in The Congregationalist and Christian World, volume XC, number 36, Boston, Mass.: The Pilgrim Press, page 337