Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without peevish complaints.
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- adverb Without
repining ;uncomplainingly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The will of Providence be resigned to in the rest: as that leads, let me patiently and unrepiningly follow! —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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No murmurs escape from one who seems to have sustained unrepiningly the sorrows which reach the heart most truly; the wreck of fortune, not for ourselves, but for our children, and the terrors of suspense.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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Women were antagonistic to him, and Mrs. Mangan, godly matron though she was, seemed to him to symbolize a very different ordering of life to that which he approved; but the Big Doctor was an asset of the Church who must be simpered upon, and for whose sake a little social boredom must be unrepiningly endured.
Mount Music Martin Ross 1888
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Talbot-Lowry (D.L., and J.P.) to humanity, that his race should multiply and replenish the earth, and Lady Isabel had unrepiningly obliged humanity to the extent of four sons and two daughters.
Mount Music Martin Ross 1888
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But as he had met life, so he now met death -- calmly and unrepiningly, certain that hard as it had been hard as it seemed now, it must yet be for the best -- the solving of the riddle he left to God.
Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880
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She is beneficent in will and speech: It is Isis the beneficent, the avenger of her brother: she unrepiningly sought him:
Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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To Hunilla, pain seemed so necessary, that pain in other beings, though by love and sympathy made her own, was unrepiningly to be borne.
The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855
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If not, they might at least learn to submit unrepiningly to that comparatively moderate degree of notice and regard which is the due of those who are perfectly ordinary in their minds, and fit only to take a place amongst the audience.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852 Various 1836
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Providence be resigned to in the rest: as that leads, let me patiently and unrepiningly follow!
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725
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"Yes, sister," said he, with a theatrical tone, "I see the dire necessity, and submit to it unrepiningly.
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself Etienne-L��on Lamothe-Langon 1825
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