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

Much languishment, I see, small mercy wakes; For the last day though now my heart prepares, Love not a whit my cruel prison breaks, And still my cheek grief's wonted tribute wears.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

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

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