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

Thomson, indeed, elsewhere says of an enamoured youth overpowered by the loving looks of his mistress,— "From the keen gaze her lover turns away, Full of the dear ecstatic power, and sick With sighing languishment."

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

There is more in disease than the mere pang and languishment.

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

I had not thought the ways of Love were languishment and woe And      stress of soul until, alas! to love thee I was fain.

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

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