Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
- Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens, formerly used in medicines.
- (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.
Verbit
- (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.
- (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
- (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.
Esimerkit
- I rued the day I crossed paths with her.
- I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.
- Thy will chose freely what it now so justly rues.
- Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte
- which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them
- Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.
- But th'aged Nourse, her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Savine, and the flowre / Of Camphora, and Calamint, and Dill [...].
- 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.
- Oh, how you will rue that day!
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | rued | Imperfekti | rued |
| Partisiipin preesens | ruing | Partisiipin preesens | rueing |
| Monikko | rues | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | rues |