Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who repines or murmurs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who repines.

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  • noun One who repines.

Etymologies

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repine +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Earth, with all thy sorrows, take, take me once again, that better I may learn to work my way to that last harbour, which rejecting the criminal repiner, opens its soft bosom to the firm, though supplicating sufferer! '

    Camilla 2008

  • John Downame cried, "is seated upon the ale-bench and has got himself between the cup and the wall he presently becomes a reprover of magistrates, a controller of the state, a murmurer and repiner against the best established government."

    Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994

  • O, Earth, with all thy sorrows, take, take me once again, that better I may learn to work my way to that last harbour, which rejecting the criminal repiner, opens its soft bosom to the firm, though supplicating sufferer! '

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

  • -- Cecilia! have I been a murmurer at the decrees of providence? have I been an impious repiner when heaven has poured down its wrath upon my head? if not, why am I marked out for divine vengeance? before I lose my senses, or my life, for both I cannot retain, hear the last act of your friend's tragic story.

    Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph 1767

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