Regret vs Deny - What's the difference?
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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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(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.
To not allow.
* 1847 , Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey Chapter XVI
To assert that something is not true.
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To disallow
to refuse to give or grant something to someone
* J. Edwards
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(sports) To prevent from scoring.
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* Bancroft
* Keble
(obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).
* Shakespeare
In obsolete terms the difference between regret and deny
is that regret is dislike; aversion while deny is to refuse (to do or accept something).As verbs the difference between regret and deny
is that 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 while deny is to not allow.As a noun 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.regret
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(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.
See also
* remorse * repentanceExternal links
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English
Verb
(en-verb)- I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied .
- 'Do! pray do! I shall be the most miserable of men if you don't. You cannot be so cruel as to deny me a favour so easily granted and yet so highly prized!' pleaded he as ardently as if his life depended on it.
- I deny that I was at the party.
- Everyone knows he committed the crime, but he still denies it.
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- My father denied me a good education.
- To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
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- the falsehood of denying his opinion
- thou thrice denied , yet thrice beloved
- if you deny to dance
