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What does repine mean?

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Verb
  1. (literary) To regret; to complain. [from 15th century]
  2. To fail; to wane.
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Shall we repine at leaving the beauties of earth, when the Pearly Gates of Paradise are opening before our very eyes?
Be not discontented at them, repine not, nor grow peevish and froward to those about you.
Why then should he repine when the hour of separation arrives?
Well, even so, he would not repine, for Naomi could see now.
And so I ceased to repine for the wound I had made in the heart of Semiramis Wilcox.
In that wish there can be no harm, for it is only wishing that you may not be tempted to repine.

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