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
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
Here's a lamentable lay of love and languishment infinite sad to ease you of your tears.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
Some have sunk into a deplorable state of utter languishment, from the circumstance of being deprived of the means of pursuing their beloved study, as in the case of the chemist BERGMAN.
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli
Who will lament, In fruitless tears, that she the dear one died, And thy surviving heart, in languishment, Soon sought the grave and withered at her side?
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
