repine
verb (used without object)
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
unrepining
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a word derived from
repine.
Example Sentences
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I will serve thee as a slave; in all things do thy bidding,—faithful, unwearied, unrepining.
From Comic Tragedies Written by 'Jo' and 'Meg' and Acted by The 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott
"Ah, do not mourn," he said, "That we are tired, for other loves await us; "Hate on and love through unrepining hours.
From Poems by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
He retired to his bed before the kitchen range, and gradually and slowly he faded away: amiable, unrepining, devoted to the end.
From A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs by Laurence Hutton
Still unrepining at his lot, This man, thus tied in Hymen's knot, Thank'd God for all the good he got.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
I plunged into my husband's occupations, became his copying clerk, corrected his proofs, and fulfilled the task with an unrepining humility, which contrasted strongly with a spirit as free and tried as mine.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
