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 William Carleton
The question is to seek consolation in disconsolation.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
It came from the cells of shame, disconsolation and despair.
From Her Weight in Gold by George Barr McCutcheon
But there was much of disconsolation in his voice.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
