hartlesse
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Adjective edit
hartlesse (comparative more hartlesse, superlative most hartlesse)
- (obsolete, nonce word) timid
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:
- the hartlesse hynd and roebucke to dismay