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repining

repining noun: the act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring. Also the present participle and gerund of repine.

Noun

repining (plural repinings)

  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.1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 140

Also used as

repining is also the present participle and gerund of repine.

Forms of repining

pluralrepinings

Questions about repining

What does repining mean?
Repining means the act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.
What part of speech is repining?
Repining is a noun.
What is the plural of repining?
The plural of repining is repinings.

Words near repining in the dictionary

  1. repiner
  2. repiners
  3. repines
  4. repinest
  5. repineth
  6. repining
  7. repiningly
  8. repinings
  9. repinique
  10. repiniques
  11. repinned

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