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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Spiritless \Spir"it*less\, a.
1. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting
cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
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2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.
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A men so faint, so spiritless,
So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone. --Shak.
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3. Having no breath; extinct; dead. "The spiritless body."
--Greenhill.
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{Spir"it*less*ness}, n.
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