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

Then towards the palace of the destinies Laden with languishment and grief he flies, And to those stern nymphs humbly made request Both might enjoy each other, and be blest.

From Hero and Leander by Marlowe, Christopher

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

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

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