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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Definitions carping noun  Excessive complaining. 1911 "Oh, stop your , Dawn!" I told myself. "You can't expect charming tones, and Oriental do-dads and apple trees in a German boarding-house. " Edna Ferber, Dawn O'Hara, the Girl who Laughed, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=303618905&tag=Ferber,+Edna:+Dawn+O'Hara,+the+Girl+who+Laughed&query=carping&id=FerDawn? Chapter 6 verb  (present participle of, carp) adjective  Pertaining to excessive complaining. 1847 Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so far as I know, but not, therefore, to be overlooked. I mean the timorous or few who doubt the tendency of such books as "Jane Eyre:" in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry -- that parent of crime -- an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths. " Charlotte Bronte, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=110681496&textreg=2&query=carping&id=BroJanI Preface to 2nd London edition of Jane Eyre. 2005 Written as a ripost to Samuel Constant"s short story "Le Mari sentimental", in which the husband is driven to despair and ultimately suicide by his carping wife, Mistress Henly begins with an account of the wife"s reading of the Constant story and how as a reader she links the text of imagination to the realities of her own life.Title:Through The Reading Glass ISBN 0791464210 Publisher:SUNY Press. Author Suellen Diaconoff. Publication Date: Apr 7, 2005 Page:110      Full Definition of carping  Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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