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

Thy sire is all distraught with languishment for thee; Since      death upon thee came, his hopes are gone awry.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John

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

Alas, his fortune who's Love's slave, whom languishment hath      bound Never to let his eyelids stint from weeping night and      day!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

Sophia's beauty, which derived piquancy from a certain Oriental languishment of manner, was every where the theme of admiration.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 by Various