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

Bann'd be those musty mews, where we have spent Our youthful days in paled languishment!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

Without health life is only a languishment and an image of death.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Notice his embroidered silken coat, his splendid lace cravat, the languishment of his large foolish eyes, the indubitable touch of Spanish red on those smooth cheeks.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund

"Sir," saith she, "Know you wherefore he hath fallen into languishment?"

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