Definition of "disconsolate"

a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts,With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits,Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are,And might, if my extreames had ful euents,Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act III, scene ii

Sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.

1885, Robert L. Steveson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, chapter 7.

Worst off of all were the very young children, for there had been no rain for weeks, and the street was as dry and clean as a covered court, and, in the lack of mud to wallow in, they sat about the road, disconsolate as poets.

1897, W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1.

Özil looked a little disconsolate when he was substituted late on, though he did set up Wilshere's second with a lovely pass off the outside of his left boot.

2013 November 26, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian‎

overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow

a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Pleasantness of Religion”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831