repine

verb

No English definition recorded for this entry.

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpaɪn/ / /ɹə-/

noun

Etymology: Believed to have been formed (with uncertainty, due to the unusual formation) as re- + pine, with the verb giving rise to the noun (first attested in 1529 and 1593 respectively); compare the Middle English verb repinen (“(uncertain) to cause trouble to someone, grieve”) (from pīnen (“to cause pain, grieve, hurt, trouble; to starve, pine; to torment, torture”), from Old English pīnian), which may be related.

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; […]”
“And ye, fair heaps, the Muses’ sacred shrines, / (In spite of time and envious repines) / Stand still and flourish till the world’s last day, / Upbraiding it with former love’s decay.”

verb

To complain; to regret; to fret.
“[VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.”
“But many times we complaine, repine, and mutter without cauſe, wee giue way to paſſions, we may reſiſt and will not.”
To long for (something) discontentedly; to pine.
“Theſe ears, alas! for other notes repine, / A different object do theſe eyes require.”
“But the oath supremacy was not refused, the worship of the church was frequented by multitudes who secretly repined for a change; […]”