All 4 Uses of
languish
in
Don Quixote
- At length growing impatient and feeling my heart languishing with longing to see her, I resolved to put into execution and carry out what seemed to me the best mode of winning my desired and merited reward, to ask her of her father for my lawful wife, which I did.†
Chpt 1.23-24languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
- The lealest lover time can show, Doomed for a lady-love to languish, Among these solitudes doth go, A prey to every kind of anguish.†
Chpt 1.25-26 *
- As he listened to all this Don Quixote was in a state of breathless amazement, for immediately the countless adventures like this, with windows, gratings, gardens, serenades, lovemakings, and languishings, that he had read of in his trashy books of chivalry, came to his mind.†
Chpt 2.43-44
- And now from underneath the catafalque, so it seemed, there rose a low sweet sound of flutes, which, coming unbroken by human voice (for there silence itself kept silence), had a soft and languishing effect.†
Chpt 2.69-70languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
Definition:
to suffer in a bad situation for a long time