| 单词 |
rueing |
| 释义 |
▪ I. rueing, vbl. n.|ˈruːɪŋ|
[f. rue v.1 + -ing1.]
Repentance, sorrow, regret.
a1300Cursor M. 27341 Wit suet and luueli sermoning, He lede penant to half-reuing. c1440Promp. Parv. 439/1 Ruynge, for a thynge, penitudo, penitencia. 1559R. Ascham in Babees Bk. (1868) 361 Cause of greife and sorrowe to your selfe, of chideing and rueing to your lord. 1611Sir W. Mure Misc. Poems i. 106 Þe poysonous potioune of late rewing. a1618Sylvester Woodman's Bear xii. Wks. (Grosart) II. 308 Who the eager game pursuing, Lost her Ladies in the chase, Till shee heard the wretche's ruing. 1730T. Boston Mem. App. 35 Stand to the bargain and check yourselves for any semblance of rueing. 1844Cath. Weekly Instructor 42 Weep, sire, with shame and ruing! Weep for thy child's undoing! 1844Mrs. Browning Lost Bower xxxii, Did she pause in tender rueing Here of all her sylvan scorn? 1891T. Hardy Tess xxviii, A step which might afterwards cause bitter rueing to her husband.
▪ II. ˈrueing, ppl. a.1 rare.
[-ing2.]
a. Penitent.
b. Compassionate, pitying.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Luke Intr. 9/4 Ðeæm hræwende broðer..heht þætte were forᵹefen. a1300Cursor M. 27153 Preist agh be skilwis, soft, and meke, Reuand, right⁓wis, luuelili speke. 1637Rutherford Lett. ccvii. (1675) 387 Christ's love..must be a ruing, a pitiful, a melting-hearted love. a1814Witness ii. i. in New Brit. Theatre I. 16 Like the ruing prodigal reclaim'd.
▪ III. rueing, ppl. a.2
see rue v.2 |
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