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pining

Meaning of “pining”

Present-participial or verbal-noun form of pine, meaning to waste, languish, or decline in strength or life.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
1 occurrence1 verse1 bookKJV PCE

First occurrence: Isaiah 38:12

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The KJV occurrence

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Isaiah 38:12
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 38:12 · retained source text

Mine age is departed, and is remoued from me as a shepheards tent: I haue cut off like a weauer my life: he will cut mee off with pining sicknesse: from day euen to night wilt thou make an end of me.

1611 marginal noteOr, From the thrum.

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Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

Languishing; wasting away.

volume 2, leaf 298, column 2 (entry starts at OCR line 65)