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plural repinings
The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring. quotations examples
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 Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 140
present participle and gerund of repine examples