disconsolation
Example Sentences
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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
We reposed that night among the camp equipment, the sick man caring for naught in his physical collapse and disconsolation.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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 William Carleton
He was a thin, youngish kind of man, I should say past fifty, sort of French-Irish in his affections, and puffed up with disconsolation.
From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
It came from the cells of shame, disconsolation and despair.
From Her Weight in Gold by George Barr McCutcheon
