repining
English
Noun
repining (plural repinings)
- The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 140:
- 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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References
- repining in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
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