Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With murmuring or complaint.

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

  • adverb With repening or murmuring.

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  • adverb With repining or murmuring.

Etymologies

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repining +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • How short will be the reign of that all! how useless in sickness! how unavailing in solitude! how inadequate to long life! how forgotten, or repiningly remembered in old age!

    Camilla 2008

  • The moment Cecilia was seated, she began, without waiting for any ceremony, or requiring any solicitation, abruptly to talk of her affairs, and repiningly to relate her misfortunes.

    Cecilia 2008

  • Now, when men say repiningly, and in a temper which impeaches alike society and providence, that a lowly lot, with its necessary privations and its consequent ignorance, is a barrier, perpetual and insuperable, against usefulness and happiness and honor, we turn to the name and memory of Bunyan as an embodied denial of the impeachment, and as carolling forth their cheerful rebuke of such unmanly and ungodly plaints.

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • But the old man was telling earlier history and she sank repiningly in her seat.

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • I must bear it, and it only rests with me to decide whether I shall bear cheerfully or repiningly.

    Diary, August 8, 1859-May 15, 1865. 1863

  • And when you are discontented with the great, and murmur, repiningly, of Marvel in his garret, or Milton in his hiding-place, turn in justice to the Good among the great.

    Friends and Neighbors 1847

  • How short will be the reign of that all! how useless in sickness! how unavailing in solitude! how inadequate to long life! how forgotten, or repiningly remembered in old age!

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

  • The moment Cecilia was seated, she began, without waiting for any ceremony, or requiring any solicitation, abruptly to talk of her affairs, and repiningly to relate her misfortunes.

    Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Fanny Burney 1796

  • "I will never have any one to love," she said, repiningly to herself; "no one but mother, and perhaps not her long.

    Then and Now;--Or,--Hope's First School Zillah Raymond 1883

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