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1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterised by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.
2. Any enfeebling disease. "Sick men with divers languors." (Wyclif (Luke iv. 40))
3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. " German dreams, Italian languors."
Synonyms: Feebleness, weakness, faintness, weariness, dullness, heaviness, lassitude, listlessness.
Origin: OE. Langour, OF. Langour, F. Langueur, L. Languor. See Languish.
(01 Mar 1998)
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