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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
languish .
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Examples
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In our senate thou'st languisht since Sheridan died,
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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Mony from the General Bank but the Bank languisht, Credit sunk, and in a short time they had little to do, but dissolv'd of Course.
The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696
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And whilst she languisht for the expected Bridegroom,
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And whilst she languisht for the expected Bridegroom,
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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_ Nay, then thou dost deal with the Devil, that's certain -- Thou hast guess'd as right as if thou hadst been one of that Number it has languisht for -- I find you'll be better acquainted with it; nor can you take it in a better time, for I am come from Sea, Child; and _Venus_ not being propitious to me in her own Element, I have a world of Love in store -- Wou'd you would be good-natur'd, and take some on't off my
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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Number it has languisht for — I find you’ll be better acquainted with it; nor can you take it in a better time, for I am come from
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