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languishment
[ lang-gwish-muhnt ]
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Word History and Origins
Origin of languishment1
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Example Sentences
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?
Without health life is only a languishment and an image of death.
There is more in disease than the mere pang and languishment.
He seems to have wasted life in discontent, by the rage of neglected pride, and the languishment of unsatisfied desire.
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