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

Sophia's beauty, which derived piquancy from a certain Oriental languishment of manner, was every where the theme of admiration.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 by Various

I perceived my responsibility, and I recognised that it was not the place of the immortal organiser of languishment to be sighing himself.

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund

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

Without health life is only a languishment and an image of death.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony