rue

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  1. transitive verb To feel regret, remorse, or sorrow for.
  2. intransitive verb To feel regret, remorse, or sorrow.
  3. noun Sorrow; regret: "To their rue, the Social Democrats have to acknowledge that the Conservative-Liberal coalition has captured the center where elections are won” (Elizabeth Pond).
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  • Lirette, I left you for a war I rue -- Alas, Lirette, I've no songs left for you Will he be coming, then? —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 01 - January 2001
  • Hoboken_South: [quote comment = "130627″] [quote comment =" 130626″] T rue, they produce 90\% ... —  Hoboken 411
  • I think the rue is that as long as it is open to anyone, you can school as close as you like.
  • The Emperor took from his head his own chaplet of rue, and threw it across the shield of Duke Bernhard. —  The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • Probably because of its acridity and its ability to blister the skin when much handled, rue has been chosen by poets to express disdain. —  Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
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  1. Middle English ruen, from Old English hrēowan, to affect with grief, and hrēowian, to repent.
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rūta, probably from Greek rhūtē.

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  1. Early modern English also rew; from Middle English rewen, reowen, ruwen, ruen (preterit rew, reu, also rewede, rewide, rewed, reude), from (a) Anglo-Saxon hreówan (a strong verb, preterit hreáw), make sorry, grieve (often used impersonally, like L. pœnitet), = Old Saxon hreuwan (preterit hrau) = Dutch rouwen = Middle Low German ruwen, Low German ruwen, rouwen, ruen (the D. and Low German forms being weak, but orig. strong) = Old High German hriuwan, Middle High German riuwen, make sorry, grieve; (b) also weak, Anglo-Saxon hreówian = Old Saxon hriwōn = Old High German hriuwōn, Middle High German riuwen, German reuen, feel pain or sorrow, = Icelandic hryggja, make sorry, grieve, reflexive rue; (c) with formative -s, Anglo-Saxon hreówsian = Old High German *hriuwisōn, riuwisōn, intransitive, be sorry, repent; cf. Anglo-Saxon hreówe, sad, mournful (= Icelandic hryggr, grieved, afflicted), hreów, sorrow, grief (see rue, n.). Connection with L. crudelis, cruel, crudus, crude, etc., is improbable: see crude, cruel. Hence ult. ruth.
  2. from Middle English rewe, reowe, from Anglo-Saxon hreów, sorrow, regret, penance, repentance, = Dutch rouw = Old High German hriuwa. riuwa, Middle High German riuwe, German reue, sorrow, regret, repentance; from the verb: see rue, v.
  3. from Middle English rue, ruwe, later rewe, from Old French (and F.) rue = Provencal ruda, rutha = Spanish ruda = Portuguese ar-ruda = Italian ruta = Anglo-Saxon rūde = D. Low German ruit = Old High German rūta, Middle High German rūte, German raute = Swedish ruta = Danish rude, rue, from Latin rūta, from Greek ῤυτή, rue, a Peloponnesian word for the common Greek πήγανον, rue.
 

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