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
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 Philip Doddridge
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 John Payne
My words have imaged dread Meekly hast thou bent thine head, And dropt thy wings in languishment: Overclouding foot and face, As if God's throne were eminent Before thee, in the place.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It was through him that I have fallen into languishment.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
