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
Some have sunk into a deplorable state of utter languishment, from the circumstance of being deprived of the means of pursuing their beloved study, as in the case of the chemist BERGMAN.
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac
Thomson, indeed, elsewhere says of an enamoured youth overpowered by the loving looks of his mistress,— "From the keen gaze her lover turns away, Full of the dear ecstatic power, and sick With sighing languishment."
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John
In this piece, as in its two predecessors, Shakespeare received, both as a playwright and a poet, high commendation, although his poems were judged to reflect somewhat too largely ‘love’s lazy foolish languishment.’
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir
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 Burney, Fanny
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