disconsolateness

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You know I seldom waste time in blaming myself, and tarry but a brief space in the idle disconsolateness of repentance.

From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny

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 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

At length, with almost a ludicrous aspect of disconsolateness, they slowly retired into the forest.

From Christopher Carson by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)