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
He spoke hurriedly, as if he would thrust his desire to comfort between her and the wave of disconsolation that he felt was about to cover her.
From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Frank X. Leyendecker
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 L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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 I. (Isaac) Mitchell
The question is to seek consolation in disconsolation.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
