Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of languishing, or of pining or drooping.
- noun A languid appearance or expression; hence, softness of look or mien; tender yieldingness or compliance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of languishing.
- noun Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of
languishing . - noun
Tenderness of look ormien ;amorous pensiveness .
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Examples
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Oh, clouded wilderness of death, into whose embrace we must all fall - you are the very essence of mystery and languishment.
Josh Rosenblatt: Notes From These Pajamas: The Diary of a Freelance Writer 2009
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By hearts and livers flowing fire for languishment:
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The first person that addressed them was Captain Aresby, who, with his usual delicate languishment, smiled upon Cecilia, and softly whispering,
Cecilia 2008
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Presently he shifted his hands to her slender waist, when his finger tips sank into the soft folds of her middle, breeding languishment, and he fell a trembling like the
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Alexander the Great, turned on one side, with an expression of languishment and anxiety in his countenance.
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Shall tune our heart-strings to true languishment.
The Rape of Lucrece 2004
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Narcissa insisted on going home immediately: and, as I led her to the door, her noble admirer, with a look full of languishment, directed to her a profound bow, which stung me to the soul.
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Thomas Linacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he restored many from a state of languishment and despair to life.
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Without health life is only a languishment and an image of death.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Without health life is only a languishment and an image of death.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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