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

Much languishment, I see, small mercy wakes; For the last day though now my heart prepares, Love not a whit my cruel prison breaks, And still my cheek grief's wonted tribute wears.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

It was through him that I have fallen into languishment.

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

Sophia's beauty, which derived piquancy from a certain Oriental languishment of manner, was every where the theme of admiration.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 by Various

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 Gosse, Edmund