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

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

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

Some have sunk into a deplorable state of utter languishment, from the circumstance of being deprived of the means of pursuing their beloved study, as in the case of the chemist BERGMAN.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

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