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

Once she had been indifferent To languishment or guile, But when I argued with intent To hold her by a smile, Upon my eyes her own were bent For quite a little while.

From The Book of Gud by Hersey, Harold

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

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

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 Marlowe, Christopher

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