repining

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repining

noun repinings

The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring. 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

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of repine

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@misc{repining_2026,
  title = {repining},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/repining},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}