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

Who will lament, In fruitless tears, that she the dear one died, And thy surviving heart, in languishment, Soon sought the grave and withered at her side?

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

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

And into sudden languishment Both Gwendolyn and Gladys went.

From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Levering, Albert

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 Gosse, Edmund