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
Under such solicitude, who can wonder that the mind is overwhelmed, and, by struggling with attempts above her strength, quickly sinks into languishment and despondency?
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel
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
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
And into sudden languishment Both Gwendolyn and Gladys went.
From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Levering, Albert
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