Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not repining; not peevishly murmuring or complaining.
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- adjective Not
repining .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, then, at last, thought Cecilia, all perplexity is over! — the change of name is the obstacle; he inherits all the pride of his family, — and therefore to that family will I unrepining leave him!
Cecilia 2008
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This prostration and sweet unrepining obedience exquisitely touched and flattered George Osborne.
Vanity Fair 2006
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I skipped about the house whenever I thought there was a chance he might see me, like a child out of Wordsworth, oblivious to care and wearing an inane grin of what I took to be unrepining heathenishness.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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That silent, unrepining, uncomprehended creature, robbed by his mildness of all personality and will, weak from excessive kindness, had been suffering in obscurity somewhere on his sofa, and had not complained.
The Wife 2004
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She felt, that, once awakened, Raymond would never return unrepining to Windsor.
The Last Man 2003
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In such a scene and season of rejoicing, we might have thought that none but a Whig of the very oldest school of all, could have entertained any feelings but those of generous sympathy and unrepining satisfaction.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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During this period, she bore with unrepining patience, much bodily suffering; but her cheerful and energetic mind still retained its characteristic vigour.
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And that twofold rule will enable any man who acts under it, in the fear and strength of God, to overcome difficulties by patient perseverance or to accept disappointments in unrepining submission.
Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. Diocese Of Connecticut
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Think of these volumes lying in his desk at home, and he, their author, going about his daily tasks and pleasures, as hearty and as unrepining as though no whisper of ambition had ever come to his soul, -- as though he had no slightest desire for the pleasant fame which
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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"By the familiar name of the Mill-boy of the Slashes do these men ... perpetuate the remembrance of his lowly yet dutiful and unrepining employments."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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