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

Bann'd be those musty mews, where we have spent Our youthful days in paled languishment!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

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 Payne, John

Much languishment, I see, small mercy wakes; For the last day though now my heart prepares, Love not a whit my cruel prison breaks, And still my cheek grief's wonted tribute wears.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

Notice his embroidered silken coat, his splendid lace cravat, the languishment of his large foolish eyes, the indubitable touch of Spanish red on those smooth cheeks.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund