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
I had not thought the ways of Love were languishment and woe And stress of soul until, alas! to love thee I was fain.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by John Payne
Forget not to set down, how passionate, How heart-sick, and how full of languishment, Her beauty makes me.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
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
Here's a lamentable lay of love and languishment infinite sad to ease you of your tears.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
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