Obs. Forms: 4–5 langor(e, langur(e, 5 languowr(e, -uyre, -wyre, langer, 5–6 langour, 6 languer. [a. OF. langorer, also langorir, f. langor sb.: see prec.] = LANGUISH v. (in various senses).
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 983. He has langured for ȝour loue a ful long while.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Merch. T., 623 (Corpus MS.). Now wol I speke of woful dauyan þat langureþ [v.r. langwissheth] for loue as ȝe schullen heere.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 73. Þei ben so feble þat þei dien, or ellis þei languren [v.r. langoren] longe tyme.
14[?]. Circumcision, in Tundale’s Vis. (1843), 95. Salue unto hem that langor in sekenes.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., II. xxiv. 342 (Add. MS.). The lady for love be-gan to langour.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, IX. xx. He came to the herd men wandryng and langerynge.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 255 b. Our blessed sauyour … so thyrsted and langoured for the saluacyon of mankynd, that [etc.].
Hence † Langouring vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 9565. Our kyns þat lay in langoryng.
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, II. xiv. (Skeat), l. 59. Thus as an oxe to thy langoryng deth wer thou drawen.
1450–1530. Myrr. Our Ladye, 111. To vysyte the langurynge poure.
1552. Huloet, Languerynge in care, sorowe or thought, languidus.
