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 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

Forget not to set down, how passionate, How heart-sick, and how full of languishment, Her beauty makes me.

From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund

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

Once she had been indifferent To languishment or guile, But when I argued with intent To hold her by a smile, Upon my eyes her own were bent For quite a little while.

From The Book of Gud by Hersey, Harold