Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An old form of languor.

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  • noun Common misspelling of languor.

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Examples

  • She had forgotten, or did not care to recall, a certain langour and depression of spirits which in some measure dimmed for her the brightness of the picture, but which were to give place to the highest joy she had yet known.

    Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

  • The individual feels impelled by a kind of langour just to walk over the fallen leaves, to look in the gardens for unnoticed, forgotten apples, and to listen to the cries of the cranes flying south.

    Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

  • Miss Mary was alone in the last scene, she looked really beautiful, she will make a belle when she is grown, she is tall and (unconsciously) a little haughty in her expression, her complexion is very fair and sometimes enlivened by a peachlike bloom, her mouth is small and she has very full red lips, her eyes hazel with a kind of langour in them which is very charming, her eyebrows beautifully arched and of the same reddish golden color as her hair; altogether she is at times very pretty, and if she would only cultivate her mind she might be beautiful, as it is her greatest

    Diary, August 8, 1859-May 15, 1865. 1863

  • As commander of the army Washington had witnessed the inefficiency of the Continental Congress and could see the steadily “increasing langour of our associated republics.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • As commander of the army Washington had witnessed the inefficiency of the Continental Congress and could see the steadily “increasing langour of our associated republics.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • As commander of the army Washington had witnessed the inefficiency of the Continental Congress and could see the steadily “increasing langour of our associated republics.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • So they all four rode throughout the city, seeking her, but could hit on no trace of her and returned to their houses, sick for love, and lay down on the bed of langour.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The scent swings from apple-pie wholesomeness to spicy hookah langour, all on a sinful amber vanilla background; I want to devour it.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Marina Geigert 2008

  • The scent swings from apple-pie wholesomeness to spicy hookah langour, all on a sinful amber vanilla background; I want to devour it.

    The Sexiest Perfumes Marina Geigert 2008

  • Then the smith went away, whilst the Kazi fell down on his bed and became sick of langour for her sake, and on like wise fared it with the other three Kazis and assessors.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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