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 Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
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)
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
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
