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

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

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)

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.

But there was much of disconsolation in his voice.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank