1. the act of feeling or expressing discontent, regret, or longing
Usage: formal; literary

Examples

• His constant repining about lost opportunities grew tiresome.
• The novel captured the character’s repining for her homeland.
• She tried to avoid repining over what might have been.
• The old man’s repining filled the quiet evening air.
• Their repining about the past prevented them from moving forward.
• The poem expressed deep repining for youth’s fleeting nature.