English
Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��(r)pɪ�|-��(r)pɪ�
Verb
carping
- present participle of|carp
Adjective
en-adj
- 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 carping 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, 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
Noun
en-noun
#Excessive complaining.
#:1911 "Oh, stop your carping, 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&actsurround&offset303618905&tagFerber,+Edna:+Dawn+O'Hara,+the+Girl+who+Laughed&querycarping&idFerDawn Chapter 6]
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