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Spiritless adj.

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

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

Having no breath; extinct; dead. "The spiritless body."

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Etymology of 'Spiritless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spiritless" Quotes from Famous Books

... personage of Brutus; but he could not fill out and perfect what he has thus sketched. He seems even to have had a propensity to bring the mountain and the hill to a level with the plain. Caesar is spiritless, and Cicero is ridiculous, in his hands. He appears to have written his Troilus and Cressida partly with a view to degrade, and hold up to contempt, the heroes of Homer; and he has even disfigured the pure, heroic affection which the Greek poet has painted as existing between ...

— Thoughts on Man - His Nature, Productions and Discoveries, Interspersed with - Some Particulars Respecting the Author • William Godwin

... swinging at his sides. This time the sickening shock again visited her, it was, however, because a revealing flash of thought told her that it was not alone Lassiter who was thrillingly welcome, but also his fatal weapons. They meant so much. How she had fallen—how broken and spiritless must she be—to have still the same old horror of Lassiter's guns and his name, yet feel somehow a cold, shrinking protection in their law ...

— Riders of the Purple Sage • Zane Grey

... wives to walk through such an experience as this into a condition of abject slavery—to waste their affection without return, until they have become poor, and spiritless, and mean. I have known them to lose their will—to become the mere dependent mistresses of their husbands—to be creeping cravens in dwellings where it should be their privilege to move as radiant queens. I have known them thrown back upon themselves, until they have ...

— Lessons in Life - A Series of Familiar Essays • Timothy Titcomb

... was written on every face. The singing was spiritless, and as the people filed out of church and gathered in knots about the door, the old-time head-shaking was resumed, and the ...

— The heart of happy hollow - A collection of stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar

... superior and inferior race come in contact the lower is annihilated. Every step of the white man's progress has been a step of the red man's decay. And now this tribe, once so warlike, is a nation of spiritless beggars, crouching near the white settlements for protection from their old foes, over whom in times past ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various

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