disconsolateness
Example Sentences
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‘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
As for me, instead of desolating, the harsh disconsolateness of the scene seemed to uplift me; I savoured it with joy, as one savours the melancholy of a tragic work of art.
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett
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
The true disconsolateness is to desire and to accept consolation; why will not one then for once just go through with the pang out and out without any physic?
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
