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
It came from the cells of shame, disconsolation and despair.
From Her Weight in Gold by McCutcheon, George Barr
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.
The theme occasioned as much enthusiasm as could be expected from hearts saddened by disconsolation.
From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.
We reposed that night among the camp equipment, the sick man caring for naught in his physical collapse and disconsolation.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
