disconsolateness
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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
I know there will come feelings of disconsolateness over you occasionally, from being so out of the academic swim.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
Although he had resolved to return to Spain in the same ship, because of the disconsolateness of his parents at his departure, he changed his mind, and finished his novitiate in Manila.
‘Well, if you will not take care of me on a literal wild-goose chase,’ said Owen, with playful disconsolateness, ‘I’ll not answer for the consequences.’
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
