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Reprove vs Repine - What's the difference?

reprove | repine |

As verbs the difference between reprove and repine

is that reprove is to express disapproval while repine is .

reprove

English

Verb

(reprov)
  • to express disapproval.
  • to criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
  • * 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, Proverbs IX.8:
    • Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
  • to prevent, avoid, deny or suppress (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.).
  • * 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 856:
    • She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * reproof * reproval

    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