languishment

These means, as frets upon an instrument, Shall tune our heart-strings to true languishment.

A speedier course than lingering languishment Must we pursue, and I have found the path.

I don't know quite how it's done, but in old English novels the girls always languished, and perhaps an Englishman expects a little languishment in his.

One day her jealous husband, having entered her chamber unperceived, overheard her, singing the following lay:- "My voice to piteous wail is bent, My harp to notes of languishment; Ah, love!

It is certain, however, that nothing gave me absolute ease, but having no longer any acute pain, I became accustomed to languishment and wakefulness; to thinking instead of acting; in short, I looked on the gradual and slow decay of my body as inevitably progressive and only to be terminated by death.