rue
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.Examples: "When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, "The heart out of the bosom was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs aplenty and sold for endless rue." And I am two-and-twenty, and oh, 'tis true, 'tis true."Synonyms: contrition, misery, unhappiness, blueness, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depressionarchaicdialectaluncountable
2. (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.Synonyms: ruth, sympathy, bowels, commiseration, compassion, empathy, fellow feeling, mercyarchaicdialectaluncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.Examples: "to rue the day"; "I rued the day I crossed paths with her."; "I wept to see, and rued it from my heart."Synonyms: afterthink, deprecate, regret, repenttransitive
2. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.Synonyms: forthink, put the fear of God into, think overobsoletetransitive
3. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.Synonyms: deject, depress, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieveobsoletetransitive
4. (archaic or obsolete, intransitive, often with on or upon) To feel compassion or pity; to take pity (on), to have compassion (on).Examples: "[…] till our Lord's clouds rue upon the earth, and send down a watring of rain: Truly , I think Christ's misty dew a welcome message from heaven, till my Lord's rain fall : […]"; "1842, Nicholas Ridley, The Life of Nicholas Ridley which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them"; "Rue on thy despairing lover! Canst thou break his faithfu' heart?"Synonyms: commiserate, compassionate, feel sorry for, mercify, commiserate, compassion, compassionate, condolearchaicintransitiveobsolete
5. (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.Examples: "Old year, we'll dearly rue for you."Synonyms: grieve, mourn, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, engrieve, erme, gloomarchaicintransitive
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