languishment
Example Sentences
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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
Thomson, indeed, elsewhere says of an enamoured youth overpowered by the loving looks of his mistress,— "From the keen gaze her lover turns away, Full of the dear ecstatic power, and sick With sighing languishment."
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
Exile hath worn my heart and my spirit with languishment, And evil fortune hath turned my very lovers unkind.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
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 Walter Richard Cassels
"Sir," saith she, "Know you wherefore he hath fallen into languishment?"
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
