Hypertext Webster Gateway: "whimpering"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Whimper \Whim"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Whimpered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Whimpering}.] [Cf. Scot. whimmer, G. wimmern.]
To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to
complain; as, a child whimpers.
Was there ever yet preacher but there were gainsayers
that spurned, that winced, that whimpered against him?
--Latimer.
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