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
And into sudden languishment Both Gwendolyn and Gladys went.
From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Albert Levering
Then towards the palace of the destinies Laden with languishment and grief he flies, And to those stern nymphs humbly made request Both might enjoy each other, and be blest.
From Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe
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 John Payne
Under such solicitude, who can wonder that the mind is overwhelmed, and, by struggling with attempts above her strength, quickly sinks into languishment and despondency?
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
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