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  • adjective Not solaced.

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un- +‎ solaced

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Examples

  • It has been pointed out many times that Art lives by devouring her own offspring and the world has come to justify even that sacrifice, but we are unfortified and unsolaced when we see the children of Art devoured, not by her, but by the uncouth stranger, Modern Industry, who, needlessly ruthless and brutal to her own children, is quickly fatal to the offspring of the gentler mother.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • It has been pointed out many times that Art lives by devouring her own offspring and the world has come to justify even that sacrifice, but we are unfortified and unsolaced when we see the children of Art devoured, not by her, but by the uncouth stranger, Modern Industry, who, needlessly ruthless and brutal to her own children, is quickly fatal to the offspring of the gentler mother.

    Brighten the corner where you are Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • He was unsolaced either by candy or smoke and looked tired and not particularly happy.

    Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper

  • She had a headache, and was lying down, so he had been obliged to go away unsolaced, and longing for the evening.

    The Hippodrome Rachel Hayward

  • Roberta turned over the pages of the Tatler, unsolaced by studio portraits of ladies looking faintly nauseated and by snapshots of the same or closely similar ladies, looking either partially concussed or madly hilarious.

    Death of a Peer Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1940

  • There he found Russell Edmonds discussing his absurdly insufficient pipe with his customary air of careworn watchfulness lest it go out and leave him forlorn and unsolaced in a harsh world.

    Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • It ceased; and the mourners were left alone again with their sorrow, and passed on all unsolaced, and drooping, weeping.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • It has been pointed out many times that Art lives by devouring her own offspring and the world has come to justify even that sacrifice, but we are unfortified and unsolaced when we see the children of Art devoured, not by her, but by the uncouth stranger, Modern Industry, who, needlessly ruthless and brutal to her own children, is quickly fatal to the offspring of the gentler mother.

    Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910

  • Miss Starr always insisted that the arts should receive adequate recognition at Hull-House and urged that one must always remember "the hungry individual soul which without art will have passed unsolaced and unfed, followed by other souls who lack the impulse his should have given."

    Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910

  • It ceased; and the mourners were left alone again with their sorrow, and passed on all unsolaced, and drooping, weeping.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

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