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heartless: spiritless, disheartened Rom. I. i. 72, Lucr. 471, 1392 ∥ Usually taken =‘unfeeling’ in Sonn. Music iii. 35 [Pilgr. 279] “ ground,” but this meaning is otherwise not recorded before the 19th cent.; perhaps=‘sterile’ (an Eliz. sense).