Regent vs Regret - What's the difference?
regent | regret |
One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
*1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 139:
*:This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam.
Ruling; governing; regnant.
* Sir M. Hale
Exercising vicarious authority.
To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
(more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
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.
* Macaulay
* Clarendon
* Washington Irving
(obsolete) Dislike; aversion.
As nouns the difference between regent and regret
is that regent is regent while regret is 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.As a verb regret is
to feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.regent
English
(wikipedia regent)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- Some other active regent principle which we call the soul.
- (Milton)
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English
(wikipedia regret)Verb
(regrett)Usage notes
This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (the (-ing) form), except in set phrases with tell, say, and inform, where the to infinitive is used. SeeDerived terms
* regretterNoun
- What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe ?
- Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
- From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
