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
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 Henry, O.
The question is to seek consolation in disconsolation.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
It came from the cells of shame, disconsolation and despair.
From Her Weight in Gold by McCutcheon, George Barr
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.
