disconsolateness
Example Sentences
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If I emerge from myself, disconsolateness everywhere, spread all over the world.
From Woman by Marx, Magdeleine
As for me, instead of desolating, the harsh disconsolateness of the scene seemed to uplift me; I savoured it with joy, as one savours the melancholy of a tragic work of art.
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Bennett, Arnold
You may fancy what disconsolateness this condition--only to be called a consciousness floating in vacant space, with nothing to hold on to--brought to me.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
You know I seldom waste time in blaming myself, and tarry but a brief space in the idle disconsolateness of repentance.
From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny
In her disconsolateness she went to Madame de Maintenon, who said the King was keeping silence on the subject, and it was not advisable to remind him of it.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
