disconsolateness
- a word derived from disconsolate.
Example Sentences
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You may fancy what disconsolateness this condition--only to be called a consciousness floating in vacant space, with nothing to hold on to--brought to me.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
The Marquis de Pe�alta had passed from disconsolateness to melancholy, and from this he was gradually letting himself drift on toward a happier frame of mind.
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
"She didn't cry," reported the mother, with a disconsolateness that did not agree with the cheering words of the reports.
From When Egypt Went Broke by Day, Holman
"He's there upstairs in the drawing-room, the very picture of disconsolateness."
From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony
You know I seldom waste time in blaming myself, and tarry but a brief space in the idle disconsolateness of repentance.
From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny
