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LANGUORS
Noun
languors
plural of languor
Source: Wiktionary
LANGUOR
Lan"guor, n. Etym: [OE. langour, OF. langour, F. langueur, L. languor. See Languish.]
1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.
2. Any enfeebling disease. [Obs.] Sick men with divers languors. Wyclif (Luke iv. 40).
3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. " German dreams, Italian languors." The Century.
Syn.
– Feebleness; weakness; faintness; weariness; dullness; heaviness; lassitude; listlessness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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