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
Bann'd be those musty mews, where we have spent Our youthful days in paled languishment!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
Who will lament, In fruitless tears, that she the dear one died, And thy surviving heart, in languishment, Soon sought the grave and withered at her side?
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
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 Samuel Johnson
I had not thought the ways of Love were languishment and woe And stress of soul until, alas! to love thee I was fain.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by John Payne
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