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Regrets   /rɪgrˈɛts/   Listen
Regrets

noun
1.
A polite refusal of an invitation.  Synonym: declination.


Regret

verb
(past & past part. regretted; pres. part. regretting)
1.
Feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about.  Synonyms: repent, rue.
2.
Feel sad about the loss or absence of.
3.
Decline formally or politely.
4.
Express with regret.
noun
1.
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



... answered quietly, "it is because, for the first time for many years, I have found myself wondering whether the life I had planned for myself, the things which I had planned should make life for me, are the best. I have had doubts—perhaps I might say regrets." ...
— The Evil Shepherd • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... he lost no time in vain regrets, or ceased from active and useful work on his estate and in his county. We have read a letter describing old 'Wimple' in 1781; I shall now try to carry on the description in few words from 1855. It was a beloved home; we 'were seven,' ...
— Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. - A Memoir • Lady Biddulph of Ledbury
... And you would be happy living somewhere alone with me, abroad perhaps, or in the country away from London, away from public life? You would have no regrets? ...
— An Ideal Husband - A Play • Oscar Wilde
... useless regrets were getting me in a bad way; but at last I shook myself and tried to put such things out of my mind and take hold of conditions as they existed and do my level best to wrest victory from defeat. I was badly shaken up and bruised, but considered ...
— The People that Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... attached to my mother that I can recollect that, deeply though I felt his loss, my grief was all but forbidden by the thought that it was not my mother who had been taken from me. And yet one of the regrets that has followed me to the present hour is that I did not sufficiently value the treasure while I possessed it, and that I did not with sufficient tenderness and assiduity at the time, attempt the impossible task of repaying ...
— The Authoritative Life of General William Booth • George Scott Railton


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