regret – English noun declension

English noun forms of regret

Noun: regret
Singularregret
Pluralregrets

Sample Sentences

  • What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe? [1828, Thomas Macaulay, John Dryden:]
  • Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant. [1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:]
  • From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. [1819 June 23 – 1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “(please specify the title)”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC:]
  • Zuckerberg, whose company has been blamed for enabling genocide in Myanmar because it did not bother to hire moderators who speak Burmese, for example, added that one of his life’s biggest regrets is competing on the fencing team in high school rather than wrestling. [2022 August 26, Jason Koebler, “Mark Zuckerberg Now Obsessed With MMA, ‘Rolling and Wrestling With Friends’”, in Vice, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2024:]
  • Is it a vertue to have some ineffective regrets to damnation, and such a Vertue too, as shall serve to ballance all our vices? [1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety:]
  • Under squared errorloss we show that there exists unique minimax regret solution for the problem of selecting the threshold. [2002, Bernd Droge, On the Minimax Regret Estimation of a Restricted Normal Mean, and Implications:]
  • Each loss then represents this unavoidable loss plus a regret (loss due to ignorance of Ө). Subtracting these unavoidable losses, we obtain the regret table, Table 1.7, and the average regret table, Table 1.8. [2012, Herman Chernoff, Lincoln E. Moses, Elementary Decision Theory, page 12:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Italic *wre-
3. Latin re-der.
4. Old French re-
5. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d-der.
6. Proto-Germanic *grētaną
7. Frankish *grātander.
8. Old French *greter
9. Old French regreterbor.
10. Middle English regretten
11. English regret
12. From Middle English regretten, regreten, from Old French regreter, regrater (“to lament”), from re- (intensive prefix) + *greter, *grater (“to weep”), from Frankish *grātan (“to weep, mourn, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *grētaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d- (“to sound”); and Frankish *greutan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutaną (“to weep, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd- (“to weep, be sad”), equivalent to re- + greet. Cognate with Old High German grāzan (“to cry”), Old English grǣtan (“to weep, greet”), Old English grēotan (“to weep, lament”), Old Norse gráta (“to weep, groan”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 (grētan, “to weep”). More at greet. See: Old English Nouns 'grǣtan', Old English Nouns 'grēotan', Old Norse Nouns 'gráta'.