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

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

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

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

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 Payne, John

And into sudden languishment Both Gwendolyn and Gladys went.

From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Levering, Albert