Meaning of languescent | Babel Free

Definitions

Becoming fatigued or languid.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“[S]carcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools […]”

“It had long been languescent and its revival in 1791 was due to the energy of Home Tooke; its membership was chiefly middle-class.”

“She arrived at the cabin at that late hour of the evening when the languescent river darkened to green-black satin, […]”

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