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Definition of Languishments
1. languishment [n] - See also: languishment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Languishments
Literary usage of Languishments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature by Edward Dowden (1901)
"The " amorous languishments" of Crashaw may for a time melt our will in a divine
voluptuousness; and then it comes to our recollection that the great saints ..."
2. Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England by Cotton Mather (1855)
"He fell into some languishments attended with a fever, which in a few days ...
It was in these languishments that, speaking about the work of the gospel ..."
3. The Practical Works by David Clarkson (1865)
"It will still keep it under pains, weaknesses, languishments ; and will, in fine,
make it sick unto death. And should this have a being, a quiet abode, ..."
4. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1908)
"From me he took his sighs and tears, From thee his pride and cruelty; From me
his languishments and fears, And every killing dart from thee. ..."
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