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Rant vs Repine - What's the difference?

rant | repine |

As verbs the difference between rant and repine

is that rant is to speak or shout at length in an uncontrollable anger while repine is .

As a noun rant

is a criticism done by ranting.

rant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A criticism done by ranting.
  • A wild, incoherent, emotional articulation.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To speak or shout at length in an uncontrollable anger.
  • To criticize by ranting.

    • See also

    * rave

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Verb

    (head)

    • repine

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • *, II.3.6:
    • But many times we complain, repine , and mutter without a cause, we give way to passions we may resist and will not.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • What if the head, the eye, or ear repined / To serve mere engines to the ruling mind?
  • * 1958 , John W. Peterson, Night of Miracles :
    • no more need men on earth repine
  • * 1988 , (Anthony Burgess), Any Old Iron :
    • Beatrix invited me no more to tea but I did not greatly repine .
  • To fail; to wane.
  • * Spenser
    • Repining courage yields no foot to foe.

    References

    * “ †re?pine, n.'']” listed in the '' [2nd ed., 1989 * “ repine, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989 * “ repine, n.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., December 2009 * “ repine, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., December 2009