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Definition of Regretters
1. regretter [n] - See also: regretter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Regretters
Literary usage of Regretters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"Yet the regretters had some reason. I myself could relinquish without much sorrow,
from the matter actually repub- ^ lished, more than as much as would ..."
2. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by John Patterson MacLean (1900)
"On the contrary, they would prove that it was offered to any one, after signing,
that the regretters could any time have their names crossed, ..."
3. Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin: In the Possession of the Municipal by Dublin (Ireland), Rosa Mulholland Gilbert, John Francis Weldrick (1898)
"... and regretters of sea coal, together with keepers of fraudulent measures, and
therefore prays the citys consideration : ordered that the treasurer do ..."
4. History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe: From the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"Yet the regretters had some reason. I myself could relinquish without much sorrow,
from the matter actually repub- lished, more than as much as would ..."
5. Langton Records, Journals and Letters from Canada, 1837-1846..: Printed for by Anne Langton, Ellen Josephine Philips (1904)
"I am one of the regretters. If we get back our wind, which has left us in the
lurch just now, we may expect to be on the Banks to-morrow. June 12. ..."