inconsolable

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Long is inconsolable, and begs the boys to shoot him.

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  1. adjective Impossible or difficult to console; despondent: was inconsolable after his pet died.

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  • Dan was inconsolable, and wept to be taken back to Joppa. —  Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
  • Long is inconsolable, and begs the boys to shoot him. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Citizen-soldier, by John Beatty.
  • Carmilla is inconsolable, and during an engagement party for the two lovers she wanders off into the family cemetery, while firework explode overhead and light up the night sky with a rainbow of colors in one of the films most visually stunning moments. —  C I N E B E A T S
  • Voltaire was equally inconsolable, and still more violent in the expression of his grief. —  Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot
  • In the world, and after the lapse of a certain period, there is but one sort of widows inconsolable--those who refuse to be comforted, because they can't get married again One of our most distinguished sculptors was summoned, a short time since, to the house of a young lady, connected by birth with a family of the highest grade in the aristocracy of wealth, and united in marriage to the heir of a title illustrious in the military annals of the empire. —  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
 

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  1. = French inconsolable = Spanish inconsolable = Portuguese inconsolavel = Italian inconsolabile, from Latin inconsolabilis, inconsolable, from in- privative + consolabilis, consolable: see consolable.
 

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