disconsolateness

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"She didn't cry," reported the mother, with a disconsolateness that did not agree with the cheering words of the reports.

From When Egypt Went Broke by Day, Holman

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 James, William

Cope himself, when his father questioned him, said with frank disconsolateness, "I'm miserable!"

From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake

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

From The Madigans by Lowell, Orson

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 Carlyle, Thomas