repiningly
English edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
repiningly (not comparable)
- complainingly; regretfully; ruefully
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 201–202:
- "Once only since my abode in this convent has my heart gone back to the things of its former life; but tenderly—not repiningly.
References edit
- “repiningly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.