Repining
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of repine form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"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."
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