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
I had not thought the ways of Love were languishment and woe And stress of soul until, alas! to love thee I was fain.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by Payne, John
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
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
The King hath the name Fisherman, and lieth in languishment on account of two knights that have been at his castle and made not good demand.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
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