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▪ I. languishing, vbl. n.|ˈlæŋgwɪʃɪŋ|
[f. languish v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb languish; languor. With a and pl.: An attack of languor or faintness, esp. such as proceeds from disease.
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 529 Then were I quyt of langwysshyng yn drede. 1382Wyclif Luke iv. 40 Sike men with dyuerse langwischingis. c1477Caxton Jason 8 b, Feling also the languisshing and smarting of their woundes. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxv. 23 Bricht sygn, gladyng our languissing. 1601Shakes. All's Well i. iii. 235 A remedie..To cure the desperate languishings whereof The King is render'd lost. 1611Bible Ps. xli. 3 The Lord will strengthen him vpon the bed of languishing. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 161 If this Harmonical Temperature of the whole Body be disturbed..Weakness and Languishing will immediately seize upon it. 1711Steele Spect. No. 140 ⁋2 He..speaks of Flames, Tortures, Languishings and Ecstasies. a1715Burnet Own Time (1724) I. 391 He fell into a languishing, which, after some months carried him off. 1816Chalmers Let. in Life (1851) II. 53 To sustain you under all the sickenings, and faintings, and languishings of your earthly disease.
▪ II. languishing, ppl. a.|ˈlæŋgwɪʃɪŋ|
[f. languish v. + -ing2.]
That languishes.
1. Declining in health, pining away, drooping. Now rare. † In early use: Suffering from sickness or disease.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. (1866) 2 Shewe þe to þis languessande, be þou leche vn-to þis woundyde! 1382Wyclif John v. 3 A greet multitude of langwischinge men. 1683Tryon Way to Health vi. (1697) 100 The gasping parched Earth and languishing Nature. a1715Burnet Own Time (1724) I. 585 He was now in so languishing a state,..that..his death..seemed to be very near. 1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. 112 The weaker and more languishing a Tree is, the sooner it ought to be prun'd. 1777Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 27 Aug., The poor languishing Lady is glad to see me. 1858Bryant Rain-dream ii, A thousand languishing fields, A thousand fainting gardens, are refreshed.
b. Said of a sickness, a death: Lingering. ? Obs.
1611Shakes. Cymb. i. v. 9 These most poysonous Compounds, Which are the moouers of a languishing death. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 185 A Flux drawing to a languishing dropsie is mortal. 1683Tryon Way to Health xix. (1697) 424 Consumptions, and other languishing Diseases. 1709Steele Tatler No. 78 ⁋8, I am just recovered out of a languishing Sickness. 1768H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 129 His wife, who died of a languishing distemper.
c. fig. of immaterial things.
1382Wyclif Wisd. xvii. 8 Fro the languysshende soule. 1661(title) An Humble Representation of the Sad Condition Of many of the Kings Party, Who since His Majesties Happy Restauration have no Relief, and but Languishing Hopes. 1697Jos. Woodward Rel. Soc. London Ded. (1701) 6 Do all that you regularly can, toward..the revival of languishing religion. a1711Ken Divine Love Wks. (1838) 327 My weak and languishing soul.
2. a. Pining with love or grief. b. With reference to looks or behaviour: Expressive of sentimental emotion (now used in ridicule).
a1400Morte Arth. 4339 Ladys languessande and lowrande to schewe. 1657G. Thornley Daphnis & Chloe 61 They [lovers] are languishing and carelesse to other things. 1683D'Urfey New Collect. Songs 9 Possess the pleasing toil of languishing Embraces! 1683Tryon Way to Health xix. (1697) 428 Whether they look Soberly, or Merry, Languishing, or with Wide Mouths. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. lxii. (1804) 445 Looking at me with a languishing eye, he said [etc.].
3. Suffering from, or exhibiting, weariness or ennui; acting in a slow or tardy fashion. Of a narrative, etc.: Failing to excite interest.
1655Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 1 With so languishing and careless a pace. a1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1697) 7 Mr. Smith, and Mr. Johnson..were two such languishing Gentlemen in their Conversation. 1711Addison Spect. No. 255 ⁋1 The soul..is..slow in its resolves, and languishing in its executions. 1741tr. D'Argens' Chinese Lett. xxiii. 162 Our Poets deprive themselves of a great Advantage, by rejecting almost all Narratives as languishing, and putting the most simple and most cruel Things equally into Dialogue and Action. |