rue
see also: Rue
Pronunciation
Rue
Proper noun
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see also: Rue
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹuː/
rue (uncountable)
- (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
- (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.
- Portuguese: arrependimento
- Russian: сожале́ние
- Portuguese: compaixão
- Russian: сострада́ние
rue (rues, present participle ruing; past and past participle rued)
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
- (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
- I rued the day I crossed paths with her.
- I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.
- (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
- Late 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
- Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte
- which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them
- Late 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
- (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Death of the Old Year
- Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Death of the Old Year
rue (plural rues)
- Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
- But th'aged Nourse, her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Savine, and the flowre / Of Camphora, and Calamint, and Dill [...].
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5, Ophelia:
- There’s fennel for you, and columbines: there’s rue for you; and here’s some for me: we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with a difference.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
- garden rue
- herb of grace
- French: rue odorante, herbe de grâce, Herbe à la belle Fille
- German: Raute, Weinraute, Gertrudenkraut, Gnadenkraut, Kreuzraute, Totenkraut, Gartenraute, Weinkraut
- Italian: ruta
- Portuguese: arruda
- Russian: ру́та
- Spanish: ruda
Rue
Proper noun
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