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
On account of one single word he delayed to speak, did this languishment come upon me.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
When reduced to the lowest degree of languishment by a consumption, I could not forbear looking upon her almost every hour.
From The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 by Philip Doddridge
The dead cannot return, and nothing is left us here but languishment and grief.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson
And into sudden languishment Both Gwendolyn and Gladys went.
From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Albert Levering
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