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

This languishment is come upon him through one that harboured in his hostel, to whom the most Holy Graal appeared.

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

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

Who will lament, In fruitless tears, that she the dear one died, And thy surviving heart, in languishment, Soon sought the grave and withered at her side?

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

The gentle calm that like a whispered song Steals o'er the sense with sweetest languishment?

From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard