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

On account of one single word he delayed to speak, did this languishment come upon me.

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

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

Then, by that count which lovers books invent, The spheare of Cupid fourty yeares containes, Which I have wasted in long languishment, That seem'd the longer for my greater paines.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

Thy sire is all distraught with languishment for thee; Since      death upon thee came, his hopes are gone awry.

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