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

And although they worked with zeal in that attempt, with great merit and profit to themselves, yet they always lived in great disconsolation, at beholding the hardness of those hearts.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

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 Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Her graceful head was bowed down by the sharp stroke of the humiliation which had just stricken her, and her whole attitude was that of hopeless disconsolation.

From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

Then would anxiety, incertitude, and disconsolation possess the bosom of Melissa, until dissipated by his safe return.

From Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father by Mitchell, I. (Isaac)