disconsolateness

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If I emerge from myself, disconsolateness everywhere, spread all over the world.

From Woman by Marx, Magdeleine

Ed looked singularly awkward and lonesome as he sat sprawled out in one of the low seats, and curiously enough his uncouthness and disconsolateness of attitude won her heart back again.

From Prairie Folks by Garland, Hamlin

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

"He's there upstairs in the drawing-room, the very picture of disconsolateness."

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony

As he had already rehearsed the part of disconsolateness, the instruments of grief sawed no fissure into his heart, but only moved bloodily to and fro in the old one.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul