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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

... education of the people. The aid of poetical song was called in to enliven and adorn the banquets of the great public assemblies, the Olympic and other games, and scarcely a social or public gathering can be mentioned that would not have appeared to the ardent Grecians cold and spiritless ...

— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson

... a spiritless dog if I had not risen to his mood. But in truth his cutting of the knot was at this juncture exactly what appealed to me. I, too, was tired of vicarious casuistry, and the fascination of our enterprise, intensified by the discovery of that afternoon, had never been so strong in ...

— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers

... wartime and shedding more blood than even the fiercest lion on his cruelest days. Which would perplex a gentlemanly super-cat spectator the more, our habits of wholesale slaughter in the field, or our spiritless making a fetish ...

— This Simian World • Clarence Day Jr.

... her with every incentive for enquiring what was to be done next. It was the pressing pursuit of this knowledge that, in concatenations of omnibuses and usually in very wet weather, led her so often to my door. She thought us spiritless creatures with editors and publishers; but she carried matters to no great effect when she personally pushed into back-shops. She wanted all moneys to be paid to herself: they were otherwise liable to such strange adventures. They trickled away into the desert—they ...

— The Coxon Fund • Henry James

... more; For all my fortune, all my fate in love, My life, my death, the good, the ills I prove, To her are trusted by one sovereign power. Hence 'tis, whene'er my lips would silence break, Scarce can I hear the accents which I vent, By passion render'd spiritless and weak. Ah! now I find that fondness to excess Fetters the tongue, and overpowers intent: Faint is the ...

— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch

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