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Example sentences for "languishment"

Lexicographically close words:
languish; languished; languishes; languishing; languishingly; languor; languorous; languorously; languors; langwidge
  1. I had not thought the ways of Love were languishment and woe And stress of soul until, alas!

  2. Alas, his fortune who's Love's slave, whom languishment hath bound Never to let his eyelids stint from weeping night and day!

  3. FN#189] And I abode with her some days; but the shock wrought upon her so that she sickened and fell to wasting away and redoubled in languishment and weakness till she died.

  4. A drowsy voluptuous air of languishment is considered by the Arabs an especial charm.

  5. The longing Bridegroom hastens to his Bed; Whilst she with all the languishment of Love, And sad Despair, casts her fair Eyes on me, Which silently implore, I would deliver her.

  6. This languishment is come upon him through one that harboured in his hostel, to whom the most Holy Graal appeared.

  7. Sir," saith the good man, "Each day full bald behoveth her to be, ever since bald she became when the good King fell into languishment on account of the knight whom he harboured that made not the demand.

  8. 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.

  9. On account of one single word he delayed to speak, did this languishment come upon me.

  10. And greater cheer would I make you than I do were I able to help myself, but I am fallen into languishment from the hour that the knight of whom you have heard tell harboured herewithin.

  11. Sure of the unregarded Spoyl, despise The needless Affectation of the Eyes, The softening Languishment that faintly warms, But trust alone to their resistless Charms.

  12. To some unknown and solitary Grove, Where nothing may thy Languishment controle Where thou maist never hear the name of Love.

  13. My friend," returned Enriquez, with a sudden lapse into languishment that seemed to make him absolutely infirm, "it is everything that shall restrain me.

  14. But the actual devil which I now for the first time saw in his eyes went out of them suddenly, and he relapsed again in affected languishment in his chair.

  15. Shall that soft tender Bosom be approacht By one who wants a Soul, to breathe in languishment At every Kiss that presses it?

  16. Not from my Eyes, where Love and Languishment Too sensibly inform thee of my Heart.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "languishment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abatement; abridgment; aching; agony; alleviation; anemia; anguish; apathy; atony; attrition; boredom; care; contraction; cowardice; deadening; debility; decrement; deduction; deflation; delicacy; depreciation; depression; diminution; drowsiness; dullness; dying; ennui; exhaustion; fatigue; fragility; frailty; grief; hankering; hebetude; hypochondria; impotence; indifference; infirmity; lamentation; languishing; languor; lassitude; lessening; lethargy; listlessness; longing; lowering; misery; mitigation; morbidity; nostalgia; passivity; phlegm; pining; prostration; reduction; relaxation; sagging; simplicity; slackening; sleepiness; sloth; slowness; softening; softness; somnolence; sorrow; stupor; subtraction; thinning; torpor; wasting; weakening; weariness; woe; yearning