conceitless
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conceitless (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Stupid; thoughtless; dull.
- c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- Think’st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless,
To be seduced by thy flattery,
That hast deceived so many with thy vows?
- 1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe, London: George Norton, The First Eglogue,[1]
- He thus departeth as God would harmlesse;
- And forth of auenture his way is went,
- But whitherward he draw, he conceitlesse
- Was, he nat knew to what place he was bent.