repining
English edit
Noun edit
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.
Verb edit
repining
- present participle and gerund of repine
References edit
- repining in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.