languishment
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Origin of languishment
Example Sentences
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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
Thy sire is all distraught with languishment for thee; Since death upon thee came, his hopes are gone awry.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, 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
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
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
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