Repined vs Repinned - What's the difference?

repined | repinned |

As verbs the difference between repined and repinned

is that repined is past tense of repine while repinned is past tense of repin.

repined

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Verb

(head)

(repine)

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repine

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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