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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