regret

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  1. transitive verb To feel sorry, disappointed, or distressed about.
  2. transitive verb To remember with a feeling of loss or sorrow; mourn.
  3. intransitive verb To feel regret.
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  • But my regret is also for you, my yet-unknown friend, because only by someone who needs such vile information will this letter someday be read. —  The Historian
  • One thing I very much regret, which is that I cannot give you house-room, because I am not at an hotel, but am living with—whom do you think? —  The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol.1.
  • But a flicker in her eye told me that all of her regret was aimed at me, not for von Spynne. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 2] - Changeling
  • With great regret, the mystic went back up tight under the wagon and waited for the cover of darkness. —  IMMORTALIS
  • I feel the truth of all these maxims; I do homage to them with regret, as soon as, with a knowledge of the cause, I consider that you reject what is excellent and accept the worse; you renounce a solid happiness, durable pleasures, and yield to depraved tastes and pure caprices; but I can see that all my reflections will not reform you. —  Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century
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sadness ·  remorse ·  uneasiness ·  dismay ·  tenderness ·  yearn ·  indignation ·  reluctance ·  suffer ·  awe ·  reproach ·  perplexity

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regret:   regretted ·  regrets
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English regretten, to lament, from Old French regreter : re-, re- + -greter, to weep (perhaps of Germanic origin).

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  1. from French regretter, regret, Old French regretter, regreter, regrater, desire, wish for, long after, bewail, lament. =Provencal regretar (after F.); not found in other Roman languages, and variously explained: (a) Orig. ‘bewail,’ from Old French re- + grater, from the Old Low German form cognate with Anglo-Saxon grǣtan, Middle English greten, English greet =Icelandic grāta, weep, wail, mourn, =Swedish gråta =Danish græde =Gothic (Moesogothic) grētan, weep: see greet. (b) from Latin re-, taken as privative, + gratus, pleasing, as if orig. adjective, ‘unpleasing,’ then a noun, ‘displeasure, grief, sorrow’: see grate, gree, agree, maugre. (c) from Middle Latin as if *regradus, a return (of a disease), as in Walloon li r'gret d'on mau, ‘the return of a disease,’ from regredi, go back: see regrede, regress. (d) from Latin as if *requiritari, from re- + quiritare, bewail: see cry. (e) from Latin requiritare, ask after, inquire for, freq. of requirere, ask after, require: see require. Of these explanations only the first is in any degree plausible.
  2. Early modern English also regrate; from Old French regret, desire, will, grief, sorrow, regret, French regret, regret; from the verb (which, however, is later in English): see regret, v.
 

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