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
Sophia's beauty, which derived piquancy from a certain Oriental languishment of manner, was every where the theme of admiration.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 by Various
Without health life is only a languishment and an image of death.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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 Harold Hersey
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 John Payne
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