Repined vs Repiped - What's the difference?
repined | repiped |
(repine)
*, II.3.6:
* Alexander Pope
* 1958 , John W. Peterson, Night of Miracles :
* 1988 , (Anthony Burgess), Any Old Iron :
To fail; to wane.
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between repined and repiped
is that repined is (repine) while repiped is (repipe).repined
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *repine
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en-verb)- But many times we complain, repine , and mutter without a cause, we give way to passions we may resist and will not.
- What if the head, the eye, or ear repined / To serve mere engines to the ruling mind?
- no more need men on earth repine
- Beatrix invited me no more to tea but I did not greatly repine .
- 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