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

The gentle calm that like a whispered song Steals o'er the sense with sweetest languishment?

From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard

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 Johnson, Samuel

And into sudden languishment Both Gwendolyn and Gladys went.

From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Levering, Albert

Without health life is only a languishment and an image of death.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony