Both Uses
languish
in
The Brothers Karamazov
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- He'll carry off Katerina Ivanovna, for whom he is languishing, and pocket her dowry of sixty thousand.†
Chpt 2 *languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
- I wouldn't change a dandy I know of for three young Englishmen," observed Marya Kondratyevna tenderly, doubtless accompanying her words with a most languishing glance.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(languish) to suffer in a bad situation for a long time
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)