Definition of Repine. Meaning of Repine. Synonyms of Repine

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Definition of Repine

Repine
Repine Re*pine" (r?-p?n"), v. i. [Pref. re- + pine to languish.] 1. To fail; to wane. [Obs.] ``Reppening courage yields no foot to foe.' --Spenser. 2. To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur. But Lachesis thereat gan to repine. --Spenser. What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind? --Pope.
Repine
Repine Re*pine", n. Vexation; mortification. [Obs.] --Shak.

Meaning of Repine from wikipedia

- as relates to these branches of industry, the writer is not disposed to repine, and say that he has planted, and others have gathered the fruits. The advantages...
- rest in speciall, / That had an hog beene late, hight Grille by name, / Repined greatly, and did him miscall, / That had from hoggish forme him brought...
- capital. These Russian meetings were mainly frequented by the painters Ilya Repine, Vasily Polenov, Konstantin Savitski, Alexander Beggrov, Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky...
- his own family the MacBarons. According to Sidney, these families "much repined that the great and regal estate of the O'Neill... should be so broken and...
- mark of respect. Wrote The Times, "It certainly does not belong to us to repine at the visitations of Providence ... there is nothing impious in grieving...
- so 'twas just. It was his own; it was not mine. Far be it that I should repine. However, in opposition to her Puritan ways, she also shows her human side...
- 1610 that the native Irish in Ulster were "generally discontented, and repine greatly at their fortunes, and the small quantity of land left to them"...
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- are, as it seems to me on the whole, both so well off now that we needn't repine. The Cézannes had to be divided. I am willing to leave you the Pic****o oeuvre...
- for debridements". Surgery. 108 (5): 847–50. PMID 2237764. Heffner JE, Repine JE (August 1989). "Pulmonary strategies of antioxidant defense". The American...