v. [UN-2 4. Cf. MDu. ontherten, MHG. and G. entherzen.] trans. To deprive of heart; to dishearten. Also Unhearted ppl. a.
1593. Pass. Morrice (1876), 76. My … sences gon, my bodie haue vnharted: so that I liue aliue, as being dead.
1607. Shaks., Cor., V. i. 49. Yet to bite his lip, And humme at good Cominius, much vnhearts mee.
1650. Let. Cens. & Redargution Lilburne, Verses, Which scorn the Son of Noble Jonathan, As a desponding, poore unhearted man.
1830. Carlyle, Richter & de Staël, Ess. 1840, II. 431. It is probable she [Madame de Staël] knows only the French (un-souled and un-hearted) Shakspeare, and so values the man.
