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 John Payne
Then, by that count which lovers books invent, The spheare of Cupid fourty yeares containes, Which I have wasted in long languishment, That seem'd the longer for my greater paines.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
The first person that addressed them was Captain Aresby, who, with his usual delicate languishment, smiled upon Cecilia, and softly whispering, "How divinely you look to-night!" proceeded to pay his compliments to some other ladies.
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney
The dead cannot return, and nothing is left us here but languishment and grief.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson
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