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

When reduced to the lowest degree of languishment by a consumption, I could not forbear looking upon her almost every hour.

From The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 by Doddridge, Philip

Then, by that count which lovers books invent, The spheare of Cupid fourty yeares containes, Which I have wasted in long languishment, That seem'd the longer for my greater paines.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

Here's a lamentable lay of love and languishment infinite sad to ease you of your tears.

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

This languishment is come upon him through one that harboured in his hostel, to whom the most Holy Graal appeared.

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