Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-GRET'
RE-GRET', v.t. [Fr. regretter.]
- To grieve at; to lament; to be sorry for; to repent. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here / Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear. – Pope.
- To be uneasy at. [Not proper nor in use.] – Glanville.
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