Regret
Regret (r?*gr?t") , noun
[French, from regretter. See Regret, v.]
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.
A passionate regret at sin.
What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe?
Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
2.
Dislike; aversion. [Obsolete] — Dr. H. More
Regret (-ted) , transitive verb
[French regretter, Old French regreter; Latin pref. re- re- + a word of Teutonic origin; compare Gothic grētan to weep, Icelandic grāta. See Greet to lament.]
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.
Calmly he looked on either life, and here
Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear.
In a few hours they [the Israelites] began to regret their slavery, and to murmur against their leader.
Recruits who regretted the plow from which they had been violently taken.