1. repining - Noun
2. repining - Verb
repining (plural repinings)
The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.
repining
present participle of repine
Be still, sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds is the sun still shining Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both? Socrates
There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip. Alice Oswald