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

Forget not to set down, how passionate, How heart-sick, and how full of languishment, Her beauty makes me.

From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund

Thou'rt he whose face unites all charms, on whose account My      patience have I lost, for very languishment.

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

It was through him that I have fallen into languishment.

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

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

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery