languishment
Example Sentences
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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
It was through him that I have fallen into languishment.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
Thomson, indeed, elsewhere says of an enamoured youth overpowered by the loving looks of his mistress,— "From the keen gaze her lover turns away, Full of the dear ecstatic power, and sick With sighing languishment."
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
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 John Keats
There is more in disease than the mere pang and languishment.
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Edmund Gosse
