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

- 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...
- complaint upon incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining. In 1938, Lord Auckland abolished the pilgrim tax, after which the number...
- Vyacheslav Repin (Russian: Вячеслав Борисович Репин; French: Viatcheslav Répine) is a French writer of Russian extraction, born 1960 in Tomsk (Siberia)...
- lose. The verses go: Then why should we fear either Sackville or Mann, Or repine at the loss of both Bayton and Land? Ashley-Cooper, pp. 185–186. Ashley...
- possibility of pleasure; and whenever they see a funeral they lament and repine that others are gone to a harbour of rest, to which they themselves never...
- capital. These Russian meetings were mainly frequented by the painters Ilya Repine, Vasily Polenov, Konstantin Savitski, Alexander Beggrov, Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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"...
- for debridements". Surgery. 108 (5): 847–50. PMID 2237764. Heffner JE, Repine JE (August 1989). "Pulmonary strategies of antioxidant defense". The American...