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regretfulness
Variant of regret
transitive verb regretted, regretting
- to feel sorry about or mourn for (a person or thing gone, lost, etc.)
- to feel troubled or remorseful over (something that has happened, one's own acts, etc.)
noun
- a troubled feeling or remorse over something that has happened, esp. over something that one has done or left undone
- sorrow over a person or thing gone, lost, etc.
Related Forms:
- regretful adjective
- regretfully adverb
- regretfulness noun
- regretter noun
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