Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disconsolate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Disconsolate.
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- adjective Obsolete form of
disconsolate .
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Examples
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He asks whether, “when a poor, disconsolated, drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment, prays without ceasing till his imagination is heated, fasts and mortifies and mopes till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind, it is a wonder that the mechanical disturbances and conflicts of an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for workings of a different kind from what they are?”
Sterne Traill, H D 1882
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His mother was disconsolated that her son could not separate himself from occupations “so little suited to his spirit and his birth:”
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I declare to you that I have been disconsolated at receiving from you such a reproach which is absolutely unjustified ....
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I have been disconsolated at receiving from you such a reproach which is absolutely unjustified ....
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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His mother was disconsolated that her son could not separate himself from occupations "so little suited to his spirit and his birth:"
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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His mother was disconsolated that her son could not separate himself from occupations "so little suited to his spirit and his birth:"
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 30: Old Age and Death Giacomo Casanova 1761
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I have been disconsolated at receiving from you such a reproach which is absolutely unjustified ....
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 30: Old Age and Death Giacomo Casanova 1761
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'This their friendly salutation comforts us in England, every man now possesses his own vineyard; our young youth grow up unto man's estate, and our old men live their full years; our nobles and gentlemen root again; our yeomanry, many years disconsolated, now take pleasure in their husbandry.
William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 William Lilly 1641
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Happy Soul, which, even when ‘tis disturbed, afflicted and disconsolated, keeps steady there within, without going forth to declare exteriour Comfort.
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