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

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 Gosse, Edmund

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

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

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

Some have sunk into a deplorable state of utter languishment, from the circumstance of being deprived of the means of pursuing their beloved study, as in the case of the chemist BERGMAN.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac