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Disconsolation

Disconsolation \Dis*con`so*la"tion\, n. Dejection; grief. [R.]
--Bp. Hall.

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disconsolation

n. The state of being disconsolate; gloom.

Usage examples of "disconsolation".

It was gray cold and dead from horizon to horizon under the gray dead clouds-not the soft comfortable gray of twilit illusions, of unstark colors blurring like consolation or complacency into each other, but rather the gray of disconsolation and dismay, paradoxically dull and raw, numb and poignant, a gray like the ashen remains of color and sap and blood and bone.

The frozen ground slumped under the ceaseless rasp of the wind and the weight of the snowdrifts until it looked like irreparable disconsolation or apathy, an abdication of loam and intended verdancy.

Rex peered through the gloom towards two figures, hunched in attitudes of disconsolation at the reception desk.

Neither, to his mild disconsolation, was there any message from Gallian or Sariena.

Therefore when they dewelope an intention of parting company from us, I shall take measures for detaining of ’em, and restoring ’em to their friends, who I dare say have had their disconsolation pasted up on every wall in London by this time.