disconsolation

• a word derived from disconsolate.
  disconsolate

  adjective

  without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable.

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disconsolation

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 Louis Joseph Vance

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

The question is to seek consolation in disconsolation.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

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

More Suggestions

• discoloration
• disconsolate
• discontinuation
• disconnection
• insolation
• debt consolidation
• misconstruction
• reconsolidation
• consociation