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
And into sudden languishment Both Gwendolyn and Gladys went.
From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Albert Levering
Once she had been indifferent To languishment or guile, But when I argued with intent To hold her by a smile, Upon my eyes her own were bent For quite a little while.
From The Book of Gud by Harold Hersey
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 Sebastian Evans
The Irish trade is, at present, in the most deplorable condition that can be imagined; to remedy it, the causes of its languishment must be inquired into.
From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly
