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

It was through him that I have fallen into languishment.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian

On account of one single word he delayed to speak, did this languishment come upon me.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian

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

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