unspirit

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ spirit.

Verb

unspirit (third-person singular simple present unspirits, present participle unspiriting, simple past and past participle unspirited)

1. (obsolete) To lower the spirits of; to dispirit.
   • 1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, [https:// page 18]:

     Denmark has continued ever since weak and unspirited

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unspirit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)