repine
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
repine (repines, present participle repining; past and past participle repined)
- (transitive) To fail#Verb|fail; to wane.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book I, canto II, stanza XVII, pages 23–24 ↗:
- The Sarazin ſore daunted with the buffe / Snatcheth his ſword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff: / Each others equall puiſſaunce enuies, / And through their iron ſides with cruelties / Does ſeeke to perce: repining courage yields / No foote to foe.
- (intransitive, now, literary) To complain; to regret#Verb|regret. [from early 16th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Against Envy, Livor, Emulation, Hatred, Ambition, Selfe-loue, and All Other Affections”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition 2, section 3, member 6:
- But many times we complaine, repine, and mutter without cauſe, wee giue way to paſſions, we may reſiſt and will not.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, lines 992–997, page 61 ↗:
- Nor ſhall I count it hainous to enjoy / The public marks of honour and reward / Conferr'd upon me, for the piety / Which to my countrey I was judg'd to have ſhewn. / At this whoever envies or repines / I leave him to his lot, and like my own.
- 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019 ↗, lines 248–251, page 15 ↗:
- What if the Foot, ordain'd the duſt to tread, / Or Hand, to toil, aſpir'd to be the Head? / What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear repin'd / To ſerve mere Engines to the ruling Mind?
Conjugation of repine
| infinitive | (to) repine | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | repine | repined | |
| 2nd-person singular | repinest* | repined, repinedst* | |
| 3rd-person singular | repines, repineth* | repined#English|repined | |
| plural | repine | ||
| subjunctive | repine | ||
| imperative | repine | — | |
| participle> participles | repining | repined | |
| * Archaic or obsolete. | |||
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