repiningly

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English

Etymology

repining +‎ -ly

Adverb

repiningly (not comparable)

  1. With repining or murmuring in complaint.
    • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 1, 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for repiningly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)