disconsolateness
Example Sentences
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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
In her disconsolateness she went to Madame de Maintenon, who said the King was keeping silence on the subject, and it was not advisable to remind him of it.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
As for me, instead of desolating, the harsh disconsolateness of the scene seemed to uplift me; I savoured it with joy, as one savours the melancholy of a tragic work of art.
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett
She broke down there; she is now home again at Chelsea, a cheery, amiable younger Jane Welsh to nurse her: the tone of her Letters is still full of disconsolateness.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
If I emerge from myself, disconsolateness everywhere, spread all over the world.
From Woman by Magdeleine Marx
