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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

... suspicions; and my wife looked and spoke as if she had never had either doubts of me, or fears of herself, within her bosom. I was happiness itself, when, by the unreserved ease and gayety of her deportment she persuaded me that she suffered no regrets. I little fancied how much the change in my wife's manner had arisen from the involuntary change which had been going on in mine. I now looked the love which I felt; and she felt, in the improvement of my looks, the ...

— Confession • W. Gilmore Simms

... moment, I felt somewhat disheartened. All our books—almost every record of the journey—our journals and registers of astronomical and barometrical observations—had been lost in a moment. But it was no time to indulge in regrets; and I immediately set about endeavoring to save something from the wreck. Making ourselves understood as well as possible by signs, (for nothing could be heard in the roar of the waters,) we commenced our operations. Of every ...

— The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California • Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont

... from Corisco I remained a few weeks in Gaboon, and then left on the Niger, commanded by Captain Davies. My regrets, I should say, arose from leaving the charms and interests of Congo Francais, and had nothing whatever to do with taking passage on one of the most comfortable ships of all those which call on ...

— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... heard Mr. Casaubon say that he regrets your want of patience," said Dorothea, gently. She was rather shocked at this mode of taking ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... has happened. That's what I complain of. Just as I drove up to the Legation this letter was handed to me. It is from the brother of the Montmorenci, and is supposed to be written in the English tongue. He regrets that matters between Mademoiselle his sister and myself have been ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 • Various

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