languishment
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Origin of languishment
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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
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
Alas, his fortune who's Love's slave, whom languishment hath bound Never to let his eyelids stint from weeping night and day!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
Here's a lamentable lay of love and languishment infinite sad to ease you of your tears.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
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
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