† languishantadj.

Etymology: < French languissant suffering from languor (c1280 in Old French with reference to a lover's eyes in specific sense ‘displaying evidence of lovesickness’, 1487 in Middle French in specific sense ‘physically and morally exhausted’; early 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman in sense ‘sick’; 1181 in Old French as noun in sense ‘sick person’, in a medical context), use as adjective of present participle of languir languish v. Compare earlier languish adj., languishing adj.Compare the following slightly earlier unassimilated borrowing of the French word:1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode iii. i. 37 Mel. That glance, how sutes it with my face? Phil. 'Tis so languissant! Mel. Languissant! that word shall be mine too.