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Webster 1828 Edition

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Fretting one's self; feeling discontent that preys on the spirits; complaining; murmuring.

a. Disposed to murmur or complain; as a repining temper.

Noun.

The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.

repining ‎(plural repinings)

The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 140:
  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.

repining

“repining” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.