repiningly en · ADV
Etymology
From repining + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) complainingly; regretfully; ruefully
"Once only since my abode in this convent has my heart gone back to the things of its former life; but tenderly—not repiningly.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 201–202: