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

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

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

On account of one single word he delayed to speak, did this languishment come upon me.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian