SPIRITLESS

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3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.

2.
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Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire. A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone. Shak.

3.
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Having no breath; extinct; dead. "The spiritless body." Greenhill. -- Spir"it*less*ly, adv. -- Spir"it*less*ness, n.


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