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
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
Some have sunk into a deplorable state of utter languishment, from the circumstance of being deprived of the means of pursuing their beloved study, as in the case of the chemist BERGMAN.
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac
There is more in disease than the mere pang and languishment.
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund
Much languishment, I see, small mercy wakes; For the last day though now my heart prepares, Love not a whit my cruel prison breaks, And still my cheek grief's wonted tribute wears.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
