Definition of "repinings" [repinings]

• Plural form of repining. (noun)

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• "Lucy was sorry at the necessity which forced her to quit her native lanes and village, and to drag an infirm parent from her comforts at home, to the homeless waste of depopulate earth; but she was too well disciplined by adversity, and of too sweet a temper, to indulge in repinings at what was inevitable."
• "The doctor had taught Matilda, from her earliest residence with him, to practise self-denial, and never to diminish happiness by useless repinings at trifles; by these means she acquired a serenity of disposition, although her temper was naturally petulant and impatient."
• "Eugenia, for whom he was grown very anxious, amongst them, till the repinings of the child demolished his prudence."