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languescent
languescent
English
Adjective
languescent (not comparable)
- Becoming fatigued or languid.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- [S]carcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools....
- 1939, British common people, 1746-1938, page 139:
- It had long been languescent and its revival in 1791 was due to the energy of Home Tooke; its membership was chiefly middle-class.
- 2002, Frances Myers, Swan: A Novel (ISBN 0767902866), page 217:
- She arrived at the cabin at that late hour of the evening when the languescent river darkened to green-black satin, […]
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History