regret
/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/ noun B2- Emotional pain 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.
- The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.
- One who was invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this beforehand; a nonattendee.
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This made the Tin Woodman very unhappy, for he was always careful not to hurt any living creature; and as he walked along he wept several tears of sorrow and regret.
“You will present my excuses to the marquise and Mademoiselle Renée, whom I leave on such a day with great regret.”
They had analyzed and parsed it and torn it to pieces in general until it was a wonder there was any meaning at all left in it for them, but at least the fair lily maid and Lancelot and Guinevere and King Arthur had become very real people to them, and Anne was devoured by secret regret that she had not been born in Camelot.
She held her head very high, but she was conscious of an odd feeling of regret.
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