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

Then towards the palace of the destinies Laden with languishment and grief he flies, And to those stern nymphs humbly made request Both might enjoy each other, and be blest.

From Hero and Leander by Marlowe, Christopher

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

Who is more happy, when, with hearts content,   Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair   Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment?

From Poems 1817 by Keats, John

It was through him that I have fallen into languishment.

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