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repining en · NOUN
Meanings
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The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.
Doomed to a brief existence, she wasted not the hours in painful repinings at a fate so stern; but still regarding it as inevitable, she prepared as calmly as possible to encounter it.
1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 140:
Forms
repining en · VERB
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of repine