languescent

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"[S]carcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools […]"
"It had long been languescent and its revival in 1791 was due to the energy of Home Tooke; its membership was chiefly middle-class."
"She arrived at the cabin at that late hour of the evening when the languescent river darkened to green-black satin, […]"

From Latin; see languescō.

crescent fluorescent incessant incandescent antidepressant iridescent pubescent convalescent depressant effervescent luminescent quiescent

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