languishmentn.

a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) 7 Thens com the teres and the bitter torment, The sighes, the wordes, and eke the languisshement.

1595 E. Spenser Amoretti lx, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. D7^v The spheare of Cupid fourty yeares containes: Which I haue wasted in long languishment.

1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. C1 How hart sick and how full of languishment, Her beautie makes mee. View more context for this quotation

c1665 Cleocreton & Cloryana 14 Thus a while the King lived in languishment, so long as he was from Meaga.

1684 A. Behn Poems 47 Insensibles are toucht to see My Languishments, and seem to pitty me.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo viii, in Wks. (1721) III. 237 As a chast Dove..For her dead Mate a lively Love retains, And in continued Languishment remains.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 423. ⁋5 The Comparison of Strephon's Gayety to Damon's Languishment.

1800 J. Moore Mordaunt III. xci. 247 He had long been persuaded that the poor girl was over head-and-ears in love with him, and that she was in a state of languishment from the suspense he had so long kept her in.

1817 J. Keats Poems 95 Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment For skies Italian.

1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) i. 21 Love-agonies and languishments beyond the reach of words.

1903 J. Payne Vigil & Vision 17 If..It [sc. a rose] weary after its celestial home And pine and pass for very languishment!

1998 Billboard (Nexis) 17 Oct. Once completed, the song revisited the common Soul Coughing theme of the languishment of love.

1676 R. Boyle Eng. Adventures iii. 98 Izabella, in all the languishments of her kindness, reply'd, ‘Ah’ Horatio, ‘wert thou not too young to know all the Charms which attend victorious Love, thou wouldst more apprehend the loss of them, than of thy life.’

1685 A. Behn in Earl of Rochester Valentinian Prol. sig. C2 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.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 18 Apr. (1965) I. 350 Her Eyes! large and black with all the soft languishment of the bleu!

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lvii. 217 Her noble admirer with a look full of languishment, directed to her a profound bow.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ii. 24 The sighs and languishments of the fair tell-tale. View more context for this quotation

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxv. 54 Adorers who might hover around her with languishment.

1904 J. Payne Hamid Luckless 15 A lady..perfect in amorous grace and languishment.

1929 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening Jrnl. 23 May 6/4 The new favorites of the [film] industry are not marked by the long lashes and languishments of the old stars.

1995 B. Ramke Massacre of Innocents 69 Listen to languishments murmur through the night.

1576 G. Gascoigne tr. Pope Innocent III 1st Bk. Vewe Worldly Vanities in Droomme of Doomes Day i. sig. Aii^v This is that Tyran fleshe, the lawe and ruler of the members of man, the norishment of sinne, the languishment of nature, and the fodder of death.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. xii. sig. M^v Who now was falne into new languishment Of his old hurt, which was not throughly cured. View more context for this quotation

1609 J. Davies Holy Roode sig. F3^v That in the Lab'rinth of his Languishment [sc. Christ's passion] We may, though lost therein, find solagement.

1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe v. viii. 73 The languishment of a certain friend..hath taught me of late, that we are best men when we are sickly.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xiii. 364 He dyed at Chalcis of a naturall death and languishment of stomack. View more context for this quotation

1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 27 Which is a sign you are in a state of languishment and vergency towards death.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 32 When by the Bed of Languishment we sit.

1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. II. lii. 211 Pulmonary consumption... This disease, which, after the country-people among the whites, they call a languishment, is equally fatal to the Indians.

1831 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 289 A hue foreboding languishment and decay.

1845 W. Wordsworth Love lies Bleeding 8 Thus leans..Earthward in uncomplaining languishment, The dying Gladiator.

1883 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sunday Gaz. 30 Sept. 3/2 When the old man was taken down with a languishment, she turned to and did all his work for him.

1928 PMLA 43 325 She plays the part of Grail Messenger by bringing to Arthur's court the news of the Fisher King's languishment.

1979 ELH 46 728 He does hold, or lean on, a stave as if for support, such as might be needed out of languishment, illness or injury.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. iii. sig. O3 If it [sc. a Disease] tire out the Patient with tedious Languishments.

1674 T. Turner Case Bankers & Creditors Concl. 33 The Law..acquits the person that steals viands to pacify the present Languishments of nature.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. iii. 207/2 He fell into some Languishments attended with a Fever.

a1706 J. Evelyn Life Mrs. Godolphin (1939) 78 Thus Ended this Incomparable Lady..leaving..a Disconsolate Husband, (whose unexpressible griefe..would hardly Suffer him to be Spectator of her Languishments).

a1752 R. Burnham Pious Memorials (1753) 333 He fell at last into some languishments, attended with a fever.