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Regret

verb

(past & past part. regretted; pres. part. regretting)

Feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about. Synonyms: repent, rue.

Feel sad about the loss or absence of.

Decline formally or politely.

Express with regret.

noun

Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment. Synonyms: rue, ruefulness, sorrow. "He wrote a note expressing his regret" , "To his rue, the error cost him the game"

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"Regret" Quotes from Famous Books

... mutiny. For sixteen years, all told, this gallant soldier of Wolfe's army had administered the country he helped to conquer, and no Governor before or since has earned a more deserving fame. Quebec and Montreal strove to outdo each other in the protestations of loyalty and regret marking their valedictory addresses. On the 9th of July, 1796, the frigate Active embarked the veteran Governor, and sailed for England. The vessel was wrecked, however, off the island of Anticosti, fortunately without ...

— Old Quebec - The Fortress of New France • Sir Gilbert Parker and Claude Glennon Bryan

... being in sight of the land of Cape Van Diemen, and having sent our letters on board the Dick for conveyance to England, we parted company by an interchange of three cheers; and it was not without a considerable degree of regret that we took this leave of our friends; for it is but due to Mr. Harrison to say that we received very great assistance from him on several occasions: he offered us his stream anchor to replace in some degree our loss, ...

— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] • Phillip Parker King

... the Memoirs of Anna Jameson, the Italian Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mr. G.S. Hillard's Six Months in Italy (1853), and the Lives and Correspondence of Macready, Miss Mitford, Leigh Hunt, and Walter Savage Landor. I regret that the imperative need of concision has prevented the insertion of many of the letters, anecdotes, and reminiscences, so generously placed at my disposal; but possibly I may have succeeded in educing from them some essential ...

— Life of Robert Browning • William Sharp

... regret. I should do just the same again. But don't let us waste our time talking about vocations. I hear enough of that here. I want you to tell me about the ...

— The Lake • George Moore

... poverty's grip, spite o' all at tha's got. But dooant help another i' hooaps at some day. Tha'll get it all back.—Nay, a thaasand times Nay! Be generous an just and wi th' futer ne'er bother;— Tha'll nivver regret bein a friend ...

— Yorkshire Lyrics • John Hartley

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