1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. xii. f. 148^v Refrayne your teares and regrettinges.

1614 W. Lithgow Most Delectable Disc. Peregrination sig. Q2^v [They] made in the beginning pittifull, and lamentable regreetings.

1634 T. Jackson Knowledg of Christ Jesus xxxiv. 385 Yet to prevent all future regrettings, after the Angels departure from them,..it was convenient to acquaint him with the word of the Lord.

1684 W. Winstanley Hist. Rarities 275 My dear and most loving friend,..cease your courtesie, refrain your tears and regrettings.

1749 J. Gee in Orig. Poems Joseph Beaumont p. xxxiv The severe pangs and regrettings of heart which he felt at the loss of a woman of a most excellent character.

1794 J. Robertson Lett. & Dial. Lord's Supper 91 The sons of Jesus should also keep their passover with bitter regrettings because of sin.

1837 H. J. Verlander Vestal & Other Poems 88 I did not think again to feel These vain regrettings of the past.

1895 S. V. Makower Mirror of Music 95 But what is the good of all this regretting.

1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island iv. 105 No more neglect, no more loneliness, no more idle regrettings and vain-hopings.

1968 Jewish Q. Rev. 58 246 According to these two scholars, the regretting of the Nazritic vow makes the offerings a kind of..unconsecrated offering.

2006 C. Marshall Soul Mechanic iii. iv. 96 This regretting has caused pain that led to the ‘if I only did this or that’ syndrome.

a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) v. xix. 3488 The regretting remembrance of time mis-spent in the pursuit of fruitless or unlawful pleasures.

1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials III. xxvii. 213 The main design..was to drive on Papal religion and in the mean while to secure the regretting people from rising.

1790 A. Wilson Poems 140 Edina's crowds..Should ne'er have cost me one regretting sigh.

1812 J. Murray Lett. & Sketches of Serm. II. xxiii. 131 To be able thus..to take our leave of this sublunary world, with hardly a regretting sigh.

1843 Bentley's Misc. 14 586 Although it wakes regretting tears, For days that are no more,..I love that song of yore!

1876 M. T. Wightman Faithful Shepherd 166 Then brightly shall each morrow rise..Nor shalt thou heave regretting sighs For time lost yesterday.

2002 T. E. Hill Human Welfare & Moral Worth xii. 390 The regretting agents need not be so presumptuous as to think that..it would have been better if someone else had to make the tragic decision.

1765 tr. G. Anet in Foreign Ess. Agric. & Arts xlv. 367 The citizen..will regrettingly have left his long loved treasure to his griping heirs!

1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 24 Jan. (1939) 79 Many were [thinking of me], undoubtedly; and all rather regrettingly.

1953 Afr. Affairs 52 160 Then he regrettingly experienced that hard fact That ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.’

2001 A.-J. Zwierlein Majestick Milton i. 22 Paradise Lost..discards, somewhat regrettingly perhaps, all of this as irrelevant sub specie aeternitatis.