disconsolation
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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
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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
And although they worked with zeal in that attempt, with great merit and profit to themselves, yet they always lived in great disconsolation, at beholding the hardness of those hearts.
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
A vast lassitude was weighing upon her, body and spirit were faint in the enervation of an inexorable disconsolation.
From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance
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