Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being inconsolable.
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- noun The quality of being
inconsolable .
Etymologies
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inconsolable + -ness
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Examples
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Then let thy spirit be lifted up in pride, and let it contemn the tear, and that for which it falls, saying: "Thou art much too insignificant, thou every-day life, for the inconsolableness of an immortal, -- thou tattered, misshapen, wholesale existence!"
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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Hathorne, Elizabeth C. Manning, mother of Nathaniel Hawthorne, piety of, her inconsolableness at loss of her husband
A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874
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