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repine

[ri-pahyn] / rɪˈpaɪn /


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We are republishing Patterson’s repine in honor of the holiday.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2012

But if no one agrees, the author need not repine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Must Man, the chiefest Work of Art Divine, Be doom'd in endless Discord to repine?

From Time Magazine Archive

I will not pause either to accuse or repine.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Some of them have believed: "Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply— 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.'"

From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by Holyoake, George Jacob




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