Pining

['paɪnɪŋ]

(noun.) a feeling of deep longing.

Typist: Rudy--From WordNet

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pine

(a.) Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.

(a.) Wasting; consuming.

Checker: Melanie

And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Could she say, I refuse to content this pining hunger? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
As she got well, she was pining for society. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Like a love-lorn maiden, pale and pining for a neglectful swain? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
I thought of the little baby, who, Mrs. Creakle said, had been pining away for some time, and who, they believed, would die too. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Are we pining in secret? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Pining to be told. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Don't you see how I'm pining away? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
I hated it the first time I set my eyes on it--a sickly, whining, pining thing! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
We are pining for a visit. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
I'm pining to know. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
She has dreams of her wild woods and pinings after virgin freedom. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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