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Definition of Pining
1. Noun. A feeling of deep longing.
Specialized synonyms: Lovesickness
Derivative terms: Pine
Definition of Pining
1. a. Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.
Definition of Pining
1. Verb. (present participle of pine) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pining
1. pine [v] - See also: pine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pining
Literary usage of Pining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographical Sketch of Linton Stephens, (late Associate Justice of the by James D. Waddell (1877)
"... because that gives me assurance that she is a flesh and blood woman—none of
your pining, poetical shadows that live upon moonbeams and dew- drops The ..."
2. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"He told me that he was " pining the pig," a humane process, which I found consisted
in giving the poor beast nothing whatever to eat or drink for some ..."
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