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Definition of Repines
1. repine [v] - See also: repine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repines
Literary usage of Repines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"... when he is not aware that he is near enough to touch them. PORT, *. State,
attendance. court, Wa« settled scarce, when she repines, and lessens lu ..."
2. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1821)
"... an envious wretch sees another man prosper, to be enriched, to thrive, and be
fortunate in the world, to get honours, offices, or the like, he repines, ..."
3. Letters to a young lady, in which the duties and character of women are by Jane West (1806)
"... but many a heart escapes the frigid cold of this arctic circle, and repines
with, secret sorrow, or frets with fruitless wishes, while the vacant eye ..."
4. Letters of Travel from Different Lands by James P. Sanford (1887)
"Said she, "That soul is unworthy the joys of heaven which repines because the
body must endure the stroke of the executioner." The night before her death ..."
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