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Regrets

noun

A polite refusal of an invitation. Synonym: declination.

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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"Regrets" Quotes from Famous Books

... Christians are allowed on all hands to be of great importance, and to be invested with a peculiar interest; and regrets have often been expressed that it should be so difficult to know their contents. Many of them are mere fragments; and where complete works exist, the text is often so corrupt, and the style is so involved, that even a good classical scholar is repelled ...

— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 • Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

... have one. There has been no period of flood in his tide which might lead him on to fortune. While he has been waiting patiently for high water the ebb has come upon him. Mr. Prendergast himself had been a successful man, and his regrets, therefore, were philosophical rather than practical. As for Herbert, he did not look upon the question at all in the same light as his elderly friend, and on the whole was rather exhilarated by the tone of Mr. Prendergast's sarcasm. Perhaps ...

— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope

... The silvery vapour hung serenely on the far horizon, and the frosty stars blinked brightly. Everyone knows the effect of such a scene on a mind already saddened. Fancies and regrets float mistily in the dream, and the scene affects us with a strange mixture of memory and anticipation, like some sweet old air heard in the distance. As my eyes rested on those, to me, funereal but glorious woods, which ...

— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu

... of such regrets,' she continued with a little embarrassment 'He insists on the good that will be done ...

— Demos • George Gissing

... rebel vizir had hated me from my boy-hood, because once, when shooting at a bird with a bow, I had shot out his eye by accident. Of course I not only sent a servant at once to offer him my regrets and apologies, but I made them in person. It was all of no use. He cherished an undying hatred towards me, and lost no occasion of showing it. Having once got me in his power I felt he could show no mercy, and I was right. Mad with triumph and fury he came to me in my prison and tore out my right ...

— The Arabian Nights Entertainments • Andrew Lang.

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