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repine
[ri-pahyn]
verb (used without object)
repined, repining
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
repine
/ rɪˈpaɪn /
verb
(intr) to be fretful or low-spirited through discontent
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Other Word Forms
- repiner noun
- unrepined adjective
- unrepining adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of repine1
C16: from re- + pine ²
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Example Sentences
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She had not much time for repining, however, for the three young girls were busily employed in ‘having a good time’.
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I will not pause either to accuse or repine.
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“But the wife of Mr. Darcy must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.”
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Freeman called Lee “the Southern Arthur” who “accepted fame without vanity and defeat without repining.”
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Yet I have no fears now: what is done is done, there can be no repining.
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