Definition of "repine" [re•pine]

• To be discontented or low in spirits; complain or fret. (verb-intransitive)
• To yearn after something: Immigrants who repined for their homeland. (verb-intransitive)

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• "For the young men, that were most able and fit for labor and service, did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense."
• "This shows that just as locative repine and inessive repinθi are forms of *repin, so too are locative haθe and haθrθi forms of *hanθ cf. hanθin."
• "Luckily for me, the entire phrase is also found in another case, the simple locative: haθe-c repine-c in LL 9.xii also hante-c repine-c in LL 3.xxiv."