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 first person that addressed them was Captain Aresby, who, with his usual delicate languishment, smiled upon Cecilia, and softly whispering, "How divinely you look to-night!" proceeded to pay his compliments to some other ladies.
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney
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
Then towards the palace of the destinies Laden with languishment and grief he flies, And to those stern nymphs humbly made request Both might enjoy each other, and be blest.
From Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe
The King hath the name Fisherman, and lieth in languishment on account of two knights that have been at his castle and made not good demand.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
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