What's the difference between rapine and repine?

Rapine


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
  • (n.) Ravishment; rape.
  • (v. t.) To plunder.

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Repine


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fail; to wane.
  • (v. i.) To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.
  • (n.) Vexation; mortification.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Repin found it the most powerful and poignant commission of his career, donating his fee to a memorial for the composer.
  • (2) Also hugely important is Ilya Repin’s portrait of Modest Mussorgsky, painted when the composer, at the age of 42, was at death’s door because of illness brought on by his chronic alcoholism.
  • (3) Repin with Framykoin reduced most effectively the number of micro-organisms for the longest period of time.
  • (4) Repin, one of the sesquiterpene lactones found in Russian knapweed, has been shown to possess high toxicity toward chick embryo sensory neurons.
  • (5) Since the isolation of phosphoglycerate kinase from yeast (Bücher, 1955) there have been several reports of purification methods yielding enzyme approaching molecular homogeneity, from rabbit muscle (Beisenherz et al., 1953; Czok and Bücher, 1960; Rao and Oesper, 1961; Avramov and Repin, 1965; and Scopes, 1969) and from chicken muscle (Gosselin-Rey, 1965).
  • (6) The authors compared three types of bandages (Repin with Traumacel, Repin with Framykoin and Repin alone).
  • (7) Figures such as Repin, Mikhail Vrubel and Alexander Serov are “spectacular” artists, said Blakesley but “relatively unsung in the west and deserve a higher profile”.
  • (8) He dispatched Repin, the most exciting Russian painter of his day, to a military hospital in St Petersberg to capture the composer before it was too late.
  • (9) One patient had avascular necrosis, one patient had bilateral chondrolysis, and two patients required repinning.
  • (10) The paper deals with the antimicrobial activity of repin bandages used commonly in periodontology.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Modest Mussorgsky by Ilia Repin, 1881.
  • (12) The company runs a free photo-sharing website which allows users to pin and repin images of objects of interest, which are then themed in a grid-like structure.
  • (13) In a limpid dining room are portraits of Tolstoy and his family by the painter Repin; round the corner is his 22,000-volume library; in the woods is his unmarked oblong grave.
  • (14) The possible causal relationship between repin and equine nigropallidial encephalomacia disease prompted a more complete structural assignment of repin, which was accomplished by X-ray and 1H-nmr analyses.

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