languishment
Example Sentences
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Based on Stewart’s recent cookbook of the same title, the show represents a fresh attempt at the genre after the languishment of a baking program in the kitschy backwoods of the Hallmark Channel.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2012
Thy sire is all distraught with languishment for thee; Since death upon thee came, his hopes are gone awry.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
I perceived my responsibility, and I recognised that it was not the place of the immortal organiser of languishment to be sighing himself.
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Edmund Gosse
Notice his embroidered silken coat, his splendid lace cravat, the languishment of his large foolish eyes, the indubitable touch of Spanish red on those smooth cheeks.
From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse
This languishment is come upon him through one that harboured in his hostel, to whom the most Holy Graal appeared.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
