Sekirov Dictionary

repine

/ɹɪˈpaɪn/

verb 2
noun 1
forms 5

verb2

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(literary) To complain; to regret; to fret.
- But many times we complaine, repine, and mutter without cause, wee giue way to passions, we may resist and will not. — 1624
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(literary) To long for (something) discontentedly; to pine.
- These ears, alas! for other notes repine, / A different object do these eyes require. — 1742

noun1

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(no longer used) A repining.
- Whose beams upon his hairless face are fix’d / As if from thence they borrowed all their shine. / Were never four such lamps together mix’d, / Had not his clouded with his brow’s repine; […] — 1593

forms

repined · repining · repines · repineth · repinest

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