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repinings

repinings is the plural of repining.

Meaning of repining

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

Questions about repinings

What is repinings the plural of?
Repinings is the plural of repining.

Words near repinings in the dictionary

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

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