disconsolateness

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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

The Marquis de Pe�alta had passed from disconsolateness to melancholy, and from this he was gradually letting himself drift on toward a happier frame of mind.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

You know I seldom waste time in blaming myself, and tarry but a brief space in the idle disconsolateness of repentance.

From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny

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 Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

She heard Miss Madigan's gasp of horror, and could imagine the fishy disconsolateness of her expression.

From The Madigans by Lowell, Orson