disconsolateness

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The true disconsolateness is to desire and to accept consolation; why will not one then for once just go through with the pang out and out without any physic?

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

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 Garland, Hamlin

Cope himself, when his father questioned him, said with frank disconsolateness, "I'm miserable!"

From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake

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 Godwin, William

As he had already rehearsed the part of disconsolateness, the instruments of grief sawed no fissure into his heart, but only moved bloodily to and fro in the old one.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul