languescent

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin; see languescō.

Adjective

languescent (not comparable)

1. Becoming fatigued or languid.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     [S]carcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools […]

   • 1939, British common people, 1746-1938, page 139:

     It had long been languescent and its revival in 1791 was due to the energy of Home Tooke; its membership was chiefly middle-class.

   • 2002, Frances Myers, Swan: A Novel →ISBN, page 217:

     She arrived at the cabin at that late hour of the evening when the languescent river darkened to green-black satin, […]

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) languēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of languēscō