disconsolation

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In London the Council of Foreign Ministers achieved only the disconsolation of all in the world who desired peace, not power.

From Time Magazine Archive

He spoke hurriedly, as if he would thrust his desire to comfort between her and the wave of disconsolation that he felt was about to cover her.

From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Leyendecker, Frank X.

The question is to seek consolation in disconsolation.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

Mrs. M'Kenna almost fainted; and the father, after many struggles to maintain his firmness, burst into the bitter tears of disconsolation and affliction.

From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

A vast lassitude was weighing upon her, body and spirit were faint in the enervation of an inexorable disconsolation.

From Red Masquerade by Vance, Louis Joseph