disconsolation
Example Sentences
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In London the Council of Foreign Ministers achieved only the disconsolation of all in the world who desired peace, not power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. M'Kenna almost fainted; and the father, after many struggles to maintain his firmness, burst into the bitter tears of disconsolation and affliction.
From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William
A vast lassitude was weighing upon her, body and spirit were faint in the enervation of an inexorable disconsolation.
From Red Masquerade by Vance, Louis Joseph
Then would anxiety, incertitude, and disconsolation possess the bosom of Melissa, until dissipated by his safe return.
From Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father by Mitchell, I. (Isaac)
Her graceful head was bowed down by the sharp stroke of the humiliation which had just stricken her, and her whole attitude was that of hopeless disconsolation.
From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
