disconsolateness
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Ed looked singularly awkward and lonesome as he sat sprawled out in one of the low seats, and curiously enough his uncouthness and disconsolateness of attitude won her heart back again.
From Prairie Folks by Hamlin Garland
Cope himself, when his father questioned him, said with frank disconsolateness, "I'm miserable!"
From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
At length, with almost a ludicrous aspect of disconsolateness, they slowly retired into the forest.
From Christopher Carson by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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 Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
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 Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
