▪ I. rueing, vbl. n.
(ˈruːɪŋ)
[f. rue v.1 + -ing1.]
Repentance, sorrow, regret.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 27341 Wit suet and luueli sermoning, He lede penant to half-reuing. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 439/1 Ruynge, for a thynge, penitudo, penitencia. 1559 R. Ascham in Babees Bk. (1868) 361 Cause of greife and sorrowe to your selfe, of chideing and rueing to your lord. 1611 Sir W. Mure Misc. Poems i. 106 Þe poysonous potioune of late rewing. a 1618 Sylvester 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. 1730 T. Boston Mem. App. 35 Stand to the bargain and check yourselves for any semblance of rueing. 1844 Cath. Weekly Instructor 42 Weep, sire, with shame and ruing! Weep for thy child's undoing! 1844 Mrs. Browning Lost Bower xxxii, Did she pause in tender rueing Here of all her sylvan scorn? 1891 T. 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.
| c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke Intr. 9/4 Ðeæm hræwende broðer..heht þætte were forᵹefen. a 1300 Cursor M. 27153 Preist agh be skilwis, soft, and meke, Reuand, right⁓wis, luuelili speke. 1637 Rutherford Lett. ccvii. (1675) 387 Christ's love..must be a ruing, a pitiful, a melting-hearted love. a 1814 Witness ii. i. in New Brit. Theatre I. 16 Like the ruing prodigal reclaim'd. |
▪ III. rueing, ppl. a.2
see rue v.2