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Rue [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Sorrow; repentance. [Not in use.]

2. ru. [Gr. Latin ]

3. A plant of the genus Ruta, of several species. The common garden rue is medicinal, as a stimulant and detergent.

Rue [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To have compassion. [Not in use.]

Rue [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. ru. [Latin rudo, to roar, to bray.]

2. To lament; to regret; to grieve for; as, to rue the commission of a crime; to rue the day.

3. Thy will chose freely what it now so justly rues.

Rue [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine.

2. Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret.

Rue [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To have compassion.

2. To feel sorrow and regret; to repent.

Rue [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To lament; to regret extremely; to grieve for or over.

2. To cause to grieve; to afflict.

3. To repent of, and withdraw from, as a bargain; to get released from.

4. Sorrow; repetance.

Rue Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

ϖήγανον, Luke xi, 42, a small shrubby plant, common in gardens. It has a strong, unpleasant smell, and a bitterish, penetrating taste.

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

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Rueda Encyclopedia Britannica

RUEDALope de. See Drama, vol. vii. p. 420.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 21, p. 54
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Rueful [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. RUEFUL , a ru'ful. [rue and full.]

2. Woeful; mournful; sorrowful; to be lamented.

3. Spur them to rueful work.

4. Expressing sorrow.

5. He sigh'd and cast a rueful eye.

Rueful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.

2. Expressing sorrow.

Ruefully [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Mournfully; sorrowfully.

Ruefulness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Sorrowfulness; mournfulness.

Rueing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Lamentation.

Ruell bone Webster's Dictionary 1913

See rewel bone.

Ruelle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. ruel'.

2. A circle; a private circle or assembly at a private house. [Not in use.]

Ruelle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A private circle or assembly at a private house; a circle.

Unsavoriness Roget’s Thesaurus §395

N. unsavoriness, amaritude, acrimony, acridity (bitterness) 392b, roughness, acerbity, austerity, gall and wormwood, rue, quassia, aloes, marah, sickener

V. be unpalatable, sicken, disgust, nauseate, pall, turn the stomach

Adj. unsavory, unpalatable, unsweetened, unsweet, ill-flavored, bitter, bitter as gall, acrid, acrimonious, rough, offensive, repulsive, nasty, sickening, nauseous, loathsome, fulsome, unpleasant

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"