repiningly

English

Etymology

From repining +‎ -ly.

Adverb

repiningly (not comparable)

complainingly; regretfully; ruefully
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 201–202:
  "Once only since my abode in this convent has my heart gone back to the things of its former life; but tenderly—not repiningly.

References

“repiningly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.