Citations:repine

Noun

• 1829, Mathew Carey, Letters On Religious Persecution‎^[1], page 36:

  The following case from Croke, will show the felonious nature of the repine thus perpetrated.

  [rapine?]
• 1979, Ronald A. Brauner, Jewish civilization: essays and studies‎^[2], volume 1, page 112:

  It would, therefore, be criminal negligence did we not embrace this chance to proclaim broadcast, through such men as by their learning, their repines of judgment, their character and their works, will command general recognition and attention

Verb

To fail; to wane.

• 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza XVII, pages 23–24:

  The Sarazin ſore daunted with the buffe / Snatcheth his ſword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff: / Each others equall puiſſaunce enuies, / And through their iron ſides with cruelties / Does ſeeke to perce: repining courage yields / No foote to foe.