a. [UN-1 7.]
† 1. Faint-hearted, spiritless. Obs.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 237/2. Hertles, or vnherty, vecors.
c. 1482. J. Kay, trans. Caoursin’s Siege of Rhodes, ¶ 12. They had not … to fyghte wyth men of Asea … couwerdes and unherty as women.
2. Not hearty or cordial.
1583. Melbancke, Philotimus, X ij b. I … salute thy ingratitude with an vnhartie greeting.
1621. First & Second Bk. Discipl., 11. Such as embraced the true religion … were not onely unheartie friends, but … great hinderers.
1784. J. Brown, Hist. Brit. Ch. (1823), II. v. 188. Most of the English either declined serving in the invasion, or were very unhearty in it.
3. Sc. Listless, dispirited; in poor condition.
a. 1698. J. Fraser, Mem. (1738), 136. I … lost my Assurance, Peace, and Strength, and became very unhearty and indisposed.
1825. Jamieson, Suppl.
