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(rare) Becoming fatigued or languid. quotations
[S]carcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools […]
1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, (please specify the book or page number)
It had long been languescent and its revival in 1791 was due to the energy of Home Tooke; its membership was chiefly middle-class.
1939, British common people, 1746-1938, page 139
She arrived at the cabin at that late hour of the evening when the languescent river darkened to green-black satin, […]
2002, Frances Myers, Swan: A Novel, page 217