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repine

[ ri-pahyn ]

verb (used without object)

repined, repining.
  1. to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.


repine

/ ɪˈ貹ɪ /

verb

  1. intr to be fretful or low-spirited through discontent
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·辱İ noun
  • ܲr·辱Ա adjective
  • ܲr·辱iԲ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of repine1

First recorded in 1520–30; re- + pine 2
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of repine1

C16: from re- + pine ²
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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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