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Regret [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Grief; sorrow; pain of mind. We feel regret at the loss of friends, regret for our own misfortunes, or for the misfortunes of others.

2. Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.

3. Her piety itself would blame, if her regrets should waken thine.

4. Pain of conscience; remorse; as a passionate regret at sin.

5. Dislike; aversion. [Not proper nor in use.]

Regret [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To grieve at; to lament; to be sorry for; to repent.

2. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here saw nothing to regret or there to fear.

3. To be uneasy at. [Not proper nor in use.]

Regret [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction.

2. Dislike; aversion.

Regret [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Regretful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Full of regret.

Regretful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining.

Regretfully [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With regret.

Regretted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Lamented.

Regretted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Regret

Regretting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Lamenting; grieving at; repenting.

Regretting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Regret

Discontent Roget’s Thesaurus §832

N. discontent, discontentment, dissatisfaction, dissent, disappointment, mortification, cold comfort, regret, repining, taking on, heart-burning, heart-grief, querulousness, hypercriticism, inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness, worry, concern, fear, malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker, dissident, dissenter, laudator temporis acti, censurer, complainer, fault-finder, murmerer, cave of adullam, indignation meeting, "winter of our discontent", "with what i most enjoy contented least"

V. be discontented, quarrel with one's bread and butter, repine, regret, wish one at the bottom of the red sea, take on, take to heart, shrug the shoulders, make a wry face, pull a long face, knit one's brows, look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look blank, look glum, take in bad part, take ill, fret, chafe, make a piece of work, grumble, croak, lament, cause discontent, dissatisfy, disappoint, mortify, put out, disconcert, cut up, dishearten

Adj. discontented, dissatisfied, unsatisfied, ungratified, dissident, dissentient, malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical, repining, regretful, down in the mouth, in high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor, glum, sulky, sour as a crab, soured, sore, out of humor, out of temper, disappointing, unsatisfactory, frustrated (failure) 732

Int. so much the worse, phr, that won't do, that will never do, it will never do, curtae nescio quid semper abest rei, ne jupiter quidem omnibus placet, "poor in abundance, famished at a feast"

Regret Roget’s Thesaurus §833

N. regret, repining, homesickness, nostalgia, mal du # pays, maladie, lamentation &c, 839, penitence, bitterness, heartburning, recrimination (accusation) 938, laudator temporis acti

V. regret, deplore, bewail, repine, cast a longing lingering look behind, rue, rue the day, repent, infandum renovare dolorem, prey on the mind, weigh on the mind, have a weight on the mind, leave an aching void

Adj. regretting, regretful, homesick, regretted, much to be regretted, regrettable, lamentable

Adv. regrettably, unfortunately, most unfortunately

Phr. 'tis pity, 'tis too true, "sigh'd and look'd and sigh'd again", "i'm sorry."

Int. alas, what a pity, hang it

Penitence Roget’s Thesaurus §950

N. penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse, regret, self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self- humiliation, stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience, twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience, compunctious visitings of nature, acknowledgment, confession, apology, recantation, penance, resipiscence|, awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae, stool of repentance, cuttystool, penitent, repentant, magdalen, prodigal son, "a sadder and a wiser man"

V. repent, be sorry for, be penitent, rue, regret, think better of, recant, knock under, plead guilty, sing miserere, sing de profundis, cry peccavi, own oneself in the wrong, acknowledge, confess &c, (disclose) 529, humble oneself, beg pardon, turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin, reclaim, repent in sackcloth and ashes &c, (do penance) 952, learn by experience

Adj. penitent, repenting, repentant, contrite, conscience- smitten, conscience-stricken, self-accusing, self-convicted, penitential, penitentiary, reclaimed, reborn, not hardened, unhardened

Adv. mea culpa

Phr. peccavi, erubuit, salva res est, tu l'as voulu, georges dandin, "and wet his grave with my repentant tears"

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Genesis 6:6

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

1 Samuel 15:11

It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.

1 Samuel 15:35

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

And to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.

2 Chronicles 21:20

Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Corinthians 7:8

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Although I did regret it, I now see that my letter caused you sorrow, but only for a short time.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

2 Corinthians 9:7

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.