disconsolateness
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‘Well, if you will not take care of me on a literal wild-goose chase,’ said Owen, with playful disconsolateness, ‘I’ll not answer for the consequences.’
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
I know there will come feelings of disconsolateness over you occasionally, from being so out of the academic swim.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
His look bespoke the unquietness of his mind, and frequently wandered with an expression of disconsolateness and anxiety.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
Cope himself, when his father questioned him, said with frank disconsolateness, "I'm miserable!"
From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
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