repining

The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.

Noun

  1. The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.
    • Doomed to a brief existence, she wasted not the hours in painful repinings at a fate so stern; but still regarding it as inevitable, she prepared as calmly as possible to encounter it. - 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The...

Forms

repinings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of repine