ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Destitute of spirit; spiritless.

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1621.  Fletcher, Thierry & Theod., II. i. A poor, cold, unspirited, unmanner’d … fool.

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1649.  Arnway, Tablet, 74. Leave no stone unmoov’d, to cousen an unspirited (and so apt to be unchristen’d) Nation into the way … of the Alcoran.

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1751.  Smollett, Per. Pick., lxxxv. The new productions of the stage,… generally unspirited and insipid.

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  Hence Unspiritedness.

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1669.  Owen, Exp. Ps. cxxx. 15. Vnspiritedness and disability unto Duty, in doing or suffering.

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