repining

English

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.

Verb

repining

1. present participle of repine

References

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

Anagrams

• ripening