repining

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.2 Verb 1.3 References 1.4 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Noun

repining (plural repinings)

1. 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.

[edit] Verb

repining

1. Present participle of repine.

[edit] References

• “repining” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: egiinnpr
• ripening