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

Under such solicitude, who can wonder that the mind is overwhelmed, and, by struggling with attempts above her strength, quickly sinks into languishment and despondency?

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

I perceived my responsibility, and I recognised that it was not the place of the immortal organiser of languishment to be sighing himself.

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund

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