| 单词 | to take the rue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take the rue to take the rue Scottish and Irish English (northern) to repent; to feel regret; to change one's mind. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > be repentant or contrite [verb (intransitive)] rueOE i-rewOE ofthinkOE again-chareOE reusieOE overthinkc1175 beetc1200 it athinks me1250 to do (also make, etc.) (one's) penancea1300 (it) forthinks (me, him, etc.)a1300 repentc1300 forthinkc1380 remordc1450 repoin1523 remorse1530 to take the rue1789 1789 Shepherd's Wedding 10 I own, indeed, I've ta'en the rue, My mind is fairly alter'd. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 315 Tam Halliday took the rue, and tauld me a' about it. a1882 in A. Nimmo Songs Clydesdale (1882) 145 She wanted him to break the marriage, for she had ta'en the rue. a1908 H. C. Hart MS Coll. Ulster Words in M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal (1953) 237/1 To take the rue, to regret.., to repent of a proposal or bargain. a1917 E. C. Smith Braid Haaick (1927) 18 A'm no gaun ti dui'd; A've taen the rewe. 1935 W. D. Cocker Further Poems 41 The fermer took thocht, an' syne pit it to grass, Wi' a guid feed o' aits; but he then took the rue. < as lemmas |
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