Definition of "languishments" [languishments]

• Plural form of languishment. (noun)

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• "Under no circumstances must he lend himself to any additional blandishments or languishments in this field."
• "But behold the metamorphosis; the anxious mean cares of an usurer are turned into the languishments and complaints of a lover."
• "At last, after adventures which can scarcely have edified Ann Lang, Idalia abruptly "remember'd to have heard of a Monastery at Verona," and left Vicenza at break of day, taking her "unguarded languishments" out of that city and out of the novel."