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repyne

repyne

English

Verb

repyne (third-person singular simple present repynes, present participle repyning, simple past and past participle repyned)

  1. Obsolete spelling of repine [16th century]
    • 1577, Socrates Scholasticus (author) and Meredith Hanmer (translator), The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the first Six Hundred Years after Christ, written in the Greek Tongue by three Learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius, volume 1, chapter 5, page 225:
      So that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.