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unrepining

unrepining adjective: not repining.

Adjective

unrepining (comparative more unrepining, superlative most unrepining)

  1. Not repining.
    • This prostration and sweet unrepining obedience exquisitely touched and flattered George Osborne.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
    • We need not lift the veil from the brief interview which the consideration of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton afforded to the lovers, it is enough that they were happy, happy in the consciousness not of present joy alone, but of duty unshrinkingly performed, of pain endured with unrepining fortitude...1859, Grace Aguilar, The Mother's Recompense, Volume II.

Forms of unrepining

comparativemore unrepining
superlativemost unrepining

Origin of unrepining

From un- + repining.

Words formed from unrepining

Questions about unrepining

What does unrepining mean?
Unrepining means not repining.
What part of speech is unrepining?
Unrepining is an adjective.

Words near unrepining in the dictionary

  1. unrepetitiously
  2. unrepetitive
  3. unrepetitively
  4. unrephrased
  5. unrepined
  6. unrepining
  7. unrepiningly
  8. unreplaceable
  9. unreplaced
  10. unreplenishable
  11. unreplenished

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