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
Exile hath worn my heart and my spirit with languishment, And evil fortune hath turned my very lovers unkind.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
It was through him that I have fallen into languishment.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
The Irish trade is, at present, in the most deplorable condition that can be imagined; to remedy it, the causes of its languishment must be inquired into.
From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly
In this piece, as in its two predecessors, Shakespeare received, both as a playwright and a poet, high commendation, although his poems were judged to reflect somewhat too largely ‘love’s lazy foolish languishment.’
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee
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