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

This languishment is come upon him through one that harboured in his hostel, to whom the most Holy Graal appeared.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian

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 Keats, John

Here's a lamentable lay of love and languishment infinite sad to ease you of your tears.

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

And into sudden languishment Both Gwendolyn and Gladys went.

From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Levering, Albert