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regretted |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Regret \Re*gret"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Regretted} (-t[e^]d); p. pr & vb n. {Regretting}.] [F. regretter, OF regreter; L. pref. re- re- + a word of Teutonic origin; cf Goth. gr[=e]tan to weep, Icel. gr[=a]ta. See {Greet} to lament.] To experience regret on account of to lose or miss with a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the happening or the loss of something); as to regret an error; to regret lost opportunities or friends. Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear. --Pope. In a few hours they [the Israelites] began to regret their slavery, and to murmur against their leader. --Macaulay. Recruits who regretted the plow from which they had been violently taken --Macaulay.
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