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Rue   /ru/   Listen
noun
Rue  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine. "Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see." "They (the exorcists) are to try the devil by holy water, incense, sulphur, rue, which from thence, as we suppose, came to be called herb of grace."
2.
Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret.
Goat's rue. See under Goat.
Rue anemone, a pretty springtime flower (Thalictrum anemonides) common in the United States.
Wall rue, a little fern (Asplenium Ruta-muraria) common on walls in Europe.


Rue  n.  Sorrow; repetance. (Obs.)


verb
Rue  v. t.  (past & past part. rued; pres. part. ruing)  
1.
To lament; to regret extremely; to grieve for or over. "I wept to see, and rued it from my heart." "Thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues."
2.
To cause to grieve; to afflict. (Obs.) "God wot, it rueth me."
3.
To repent of, and withdraw from, as a bargain; to get released from. (Prov. Eng.)


Rue  v. i.  
1.
To have compassion. (Obs.) "God so wisly (i. e., truly) on my soul rue." "Which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them."
2.
To feel sorrow and regret; to repent. "Work by counsel and thou shalt not rue." "Old year, we'll dearly rue for you."





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"Rue" Quotes from Famous Books



... now thou do'st, or art about to do, Will help to give thee peace, or make thee rue; When hov'ring o'er the line this hand will tell The last dread ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge
... abode in the Hotel de la Terrasse, Rue de Rivoli, are well-lodged, but somewhat incommoded by the loud reverberation of the pavement, as the various vehicles roll rapidly over it. We were told that "it would be nothing when we got used to it"—an assertion, the truth of which, I trust, we shall not ...
— The Idler in France • Marguerite Gardiner
... and used to look at those pretty little white mice, in the cobbler's window in the rue St. Maclou, that turned and turned the circular cage in which they were imprisoned, how far I was from thinking that they would one day be a faithful image of ...
— Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part • Honore de Balzac
... enough already from having so much concerns with the rig'lars," replied the housekeeper. "He has lost his all, and made himself a vagabond through the land; and I have reason to rue the day I ever crossed ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... his side, Stained with bloud, his hart bloud was not dry'd. VVisty she lookt, and as she lookt did cry, See, see, my hart, which I did iudge to dye: Poore hart (quoth she) and then she kist his brest, VVert thou inclosd in mine, there shouldst thou rest: I causd thee die poore heart, yet rue thy dying, And saw thy death, ...
— Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) • Dunstan Gale


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