HEARTLESS

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Without a heart. You have left me heartess; mine is in your bosom. J. Webster.

2.
a.

Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent. Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground. Dryden. Heartless and melancholy. W. Irwing.

3.
a.

Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel. "The heartless parasites." Byron. -- Heart"less*ly, adv. -- Heart"less*ness, n.


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