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

The King hath the name Fisherman, and lieth in languishment on account of two knights that have been at his castle and made not good demand.

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

Exile hath worn my heart and my spirit with languishment, And      evil fortune hath turned my very lovers unkind.

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

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

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