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Rue   /ru/   Listen
noun
Rue  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine. "Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see." "They (the exorcists) are to try the devil by holy water, incense, sulphur, rue, which from thence, as we suppose, came to be called herb of grace."
2.
Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret.
Goat's rue. See under Goat.
Rue anemone, a pretty springtime flower (Thalictrum anemonides) common in the United States.
Wall rue, a little fern (Asplenium Ruta-muraria) common on walls in Europe.


Rue  n.  Sorrow; repetance. (Obs.)


verb
Rue  v. t.  (past & past part. rued; pres. part. ruing)  
1.
To lament; to regret extremely; to grieve for or over. "I wept to see, and rued it from my heart." "Thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues."
2.
To cause to grieve; to afflict. (Obs.) "God wot, it rueth me."
3.
To repent of, and withdraw from, as a bargain; to get released from. (Prov. Eng.)


Rue  v. i.  
1.
To have compassion. (Obs.) "God so wisly (i. e., truly) on my soul rue." "Which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them."
2.
To feel sorrow and regret; to repent. "Work by counsel and thou shalt not rue." "Old year, we'll dearly rue for you."





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"Rue" Quotes from Famous Books



... cried he, after her. "You shall rue the day when you despised Eustace Leigh! Mark it, proud beauty!" And he turned back to join Campian, who stood ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... when he came home to her—only when he had an audience and applause. He would drink with every casual acquaintance, and be gay and bubbling and expansive; and then return morose and sullen and down. "Joie de rue, douleur de maison," is the burden ...
— Dear Enemy • Jean Webster
... with astonishing vividness, a certain doll which, when I was eight years old, used to be displayed in the window of an ugly little shop of the Rue de Seine. I cannot tell how it happened that this doll attracted me. I was very proud of being a boy; I despised little girls; and I longed impatiently for the day (which alas! has come) when a strong beard should bristle on my chin. I played at being a soldier; ...
— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France
... nor never shall Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself... Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest ...
— By-ways in Book-land - Short Essays on Literary Subjects • William Davenport Adams
... account of Chinese harnts (as the country people in Tennessee call them) from Mr. Herbert Giles, who has translated scores of Chinese ghost stories in his 'Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio' (De la Rue, 1880). Mr. Giles's volumes prove that China is the place for Messrs. Gurney and Myers, the secretaries ...
— Books and Bookmen • Andrew Lang


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