languishment

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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

Alas, his fortune who's Love's slave, whom languishment hath      bound Never to let his eyelids stint from weeping night and      day!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

Then, by that count which lovers books invent, The spheare of Cupid fourty yeares containes, Which I have wasted in long languishment, That seem'd the longer for my greater paines.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

Under such solicitude, who can wonder that the mind is overwhelmed, and, by struggling with attempts above her strength, quickly sinks into languishment and despondency?

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

"Sir," saith she, "Know you wherefore he hath fallen into languishment?"

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian