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

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

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

Who is more happy, when, with hearts content,   Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair   Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment?

From Poems 1817 by Keats, John

The dead cannot return, and nothing is left us here but languishment and grief.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel