languishment
[ lang-gwish-muhnt ]
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How to use languishment in a sentence
Sophia's beauty, which derived piquancy from a certain Oriental languishment of manner, was every where the theme of admiration.
In whom can hardness of heart, sloth, rancour, languishment stand before that name?
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II) | Henry Osborn TaylorWithout health life is only a languishment and an image of death.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. | Francois RabelaisThere is more in disease than the mere pang and languishment.
Hypolympia | Edmund GosseHe seems to have wasted life in discontent, by the rage of neglected pride, and the languishment of unsatisfied desire.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes | Samuel Johnson
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