Definition of Regretfulness

1. Noun. The state or condition of being regretful. ¹

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Definition of Regretfulness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regretfulness

regressional
regressions
regressive
regressive-reconstructive approach
regressive staining
regressively
regressiveness
regressivities
regressivity
regressor
regressors
regret
regretable
regretful
regretfully
regretfulness (current term)
regretfulnesses
regreting
regretless
regrets
regrets only
regrettable
regrettably
regretted
regretter
regretters
regretting
regrew
regrind
regrinding

Literary usage of Regretfulness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Chronicle (1839)
"Thus it is net, he observes, to the love of power or riches that insanity can be directly traced, but to the regretfulness, the despondency, or the timidity ..."

2. Elements of the pathology of the human mind by Thomas Mayo (1838)
"... again, a ceaseless pondering over a painful impression tends to shake this supremacy of the will; and, finally, if regretfulness implies this process; ..."

3. The Nation: The Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United by Elisha Mulford (1870)
"Thus in the strict historical school there is always a regretfulness, as that the convention of 1787 should have adjourned, and that there is now no ..."

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