Both Uses
languish
in
Mrs. Dalloway
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- Not indeed in actual words; that is, he could not read the language yet; but it was plain enough, this beauty, this exquisite beauty, and tears filled his eyes as he looked at the smoke words languishing and melting in the sky and bestowing upon him in their inexhaustible charity and laughing goodness one shape after another of unimaginable beauty and signalling their intention to provide him, for nothing, for ever, for looking merely, with beauty, more beauty!†
languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
- Then, as the sound of St. Margaret's languished, he thought, She has been ill, and the sound expressed languor and suffering.†
*languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time
Definitions:
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(1)
(languish) to suffer in a bad situation for a long time
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)