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from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing languid or tired.
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Examples
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It would be, I then fancy, that stimulation which my capricious, languid, and languescent study needs.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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He confesses that he sometimes craves 'that stimulation which every capricious, languid, and languescent study needs.'
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson John Morley 1880
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July Monday, scarcely has the signal-cannon boomed; scarcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools, and the eyes of onlookers turned sorrowfully of the still high Sun; when this and the other Patriot, fire in his eye, snatches barrow and mattock, and himself begins indignantly wheeling.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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It would be, I then fancy, that stimulation which my capricious, languid, and languescent study needs.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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et fient ipso tristia fata loco; nec mea consueto languescent corpora lecto,
Lines Written in Sickness Ovid 1912
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