unreˈgretted, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
| 1676 Row Contin. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 453 He died unregretted by good men. 1781 Cowper Retirem. 167 A few.., unregretted, are soon snatch'd away From scenes of sorrow. 1782 V. Knox Ess. clxviii, Those [works] of the frothy declaimer are daily dropping unregretted into the gulph of oblivion. 1843 Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. iii. i. §3 All has passed unregretted as unseen. 1891 Meredith One of our Conq. xxv, Since she had taken a step..unregretted, if fatal. |