Definition of Disconsolations

1. disconsolation [n] - See also: disconsolation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disconsolations

disconnector
disconnectors
disconnects
disconnexion
disconnexions
disconsecrate
disconsecrated
disconsecrates
disconsecrating
disconsolacy
disconsolate
disconsolated
disconsolately
disconsolateness
disconsolation
disconsolations (current term)
disconsonant
discontent
discontentation
discontentations
discontented
discontentedly
discontentedness
discontentful
discontenting
discontention
discontentions
discontentive
discontentment
discontentments

Literary usage of Disconsolations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of English Literature by Edward Jermyn Mathew (1901)
"... to the parish of St. Giles-in- the-Fields, where, " being in a manner overcome with affright- ments, disconsolations, and other miseries, occasioned by ..."

2. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"But amongst them, there are some always that are cast under darkness and disconsolations in a peculiar manner; some at the entrance of their conversion unto ..."

3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... disconsolations, and other miseries, occasion'd by that fire and their losses, they both died within ..."

4. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1868)
"... I humbly take my leaue of you ; beseeching God to lead and guide you through all youer troubles, comfort you alwaies in all your disconsolations, ..."

5. The Relations of Shirley's Plays to the Elizabethan Drama by Robert Stanley Forsythe (1914)
"... disconsolations, and other miseries, occasion 'd by that fire and their losses, they both died within the compass of a natural day: whereupon their ..."

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