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
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
Bann'd be those musty mews, where we have spent Our youthful days in paled languishment!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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
Thou'rt he whose face unites all charms, on whose account My patience have I lost, for very languishment.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John
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