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▪ I. † reˈpine, n. Obs.
[f. the vb.]
The (or an) act of repining; discontent, grudge.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 490 Were neuer foure such lamps, together mixt, Had not his clouded with his browes repine. 1600Holland Livy 96 Not..iterating still his praises for feare of heaping more matter of envie and repine. 1615A. Stafford Heav. Dogge 64 What I must, that I will do, without so much as a repine or a struggle.
▪ II. repine, v.|rɪˈpaɪn|
Also 6–7 repyne.
[app. f. re- + pine v., but the formation is unusual.]
1. intr. To feel or manifest discontent or dissatisfaction; to fret, murmur, or complain. Also const. against, at, † to.
c1530Crt. of Love 1262 Enuy will grutch, repining at his wele. 1530Palsgr. 686/2 Thou repynest agaynst all thynge that I do. 1549Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 79 It was neuer hard in Ieurye that the people repyned or sayed, The kynge is a child. a1598Rollock Lect. Passion xxvii. (1616) 263 Looke..that thou repine not to this light. 1637R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose i. 118 One..is repined at, because hee hath some of the inheritance. 1671Milton P.R. ii. 94, I will not argue that, nor will repine. 1728Young Love Fame v. (ed. 2) 97 Repine we guiltless in a world like this? 1771Junius Lett. lvii. (1788) 311 Religious men..make it the last effort of their piety not to repine against Providence. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 185 Through the long and weary day he repines at his unhappy lot. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 196 Why repine? There's ever someone lives although ourselves be dead!
fig.1808Scott Marm. iv. x, From pool to eddy..You hear her streams repine.
b. Const. with that or inf.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 110 He had repined or disdained, that any man should fare well, or be well clothed, but hymself. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 66 We ought not to kicke upp the heele, as repining to live in that state, whereunto by birth we were ordeined. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 74 O see how men repine, That you so long conceal'd, should gull the time. 1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 348 We continue still to repine that our neighbours should possess any art, industry, and invention. 1870Bryant Iliad I. iv. 107, I shall ne'er Contend to save them nor repine to see Their fall.
c. To long discontentedly for something. rare.
1742Gray Sonn. Death West 5 These Ears, alas, for other Notes repine. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. iii. 153 The worship of the church was frequented by multitudes who secretly repined for a change.
†2. trans. To regard with discontent or dissatisfaction; to fret or murmur at; † to grudge to one.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 223 So that none in this behalfe can repine or gainsay vs. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. vii. 26 In signe Of servile yoke, that nobler harts repine. 1615T. Adams White Devil 13 Wouldest thou have permitted this to thy fellow servant, that repinest it to thy master? a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 173 Contented with so much favour as was never repined. 1793W. Roberts Looker-on No. 48 (1794) II. 218 She repined, for their own sakes, the malignities of her sex.
Hence † reˈpineful a., discontented (obs.); reˈpinement, repining, discontent. rare.
1655Shirley Polit. iii. ii, Most repineful, spleeny. 1743H. Walpole Lett. to Mann (1834) I. 301 Now am I relapsed into all the dissatisfied repinement of a true English grumbling voluptuary. 1818Faraday in B. Jones Life (1870) I. 274 You shall see this man..accompanied by repinement, regret, and contempt, sink into poverty and misery. |