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

The first person that addressed them was Captain Aresby, who, with his usual delicate languishment, smiled upon Cecilia, and softly whispering, "How divinely you look to-night!" proceeded to pay his compliments to some other ladies.

From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny

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 Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)

Alas, his fortune who's Love's slave, whom languishment hath      bound Never to let his eyelids stint from weeping night and      day!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

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