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English
Etymology
From disconsolate + -ly.
Adverb
disconsolately (comparative more disconsolately, superlative most disconsolately)
- In a cheerless, dreary manner; in a manner which suggests that one is beyond consolation.
1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 44:From the bank the lamb looked at her, then faced round to the hut, and, baaing disconsolately, trotted a few paces back.
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In a cheerless, dreary manner; in a manner which suggests that one is beyond consolation