regretfulness

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Occasionally, welcome self-incrimination creeps into the schematic monologues, as exemplified by the arrogance of a hedge fund manager, or the regretfulness of a publicist, who has given his life over to feeding egos.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2021

And to this was added an indefinable fear, now when the irrevocable separation confronted her; the thought that she was to leave her home was tinged with a vague sense of regretfulness, of impalpable foreboding.

From Shallow Soil by Hyllested, Carl Christian

Former days started up before her in a rapid vision, each bringing with it regretfulness for unkind words, deferred caresses, rough treatment even.

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

His thoughts would, at times, travel backward, and that in spite of himself, and they would land him with a lingering, though unacknowledged, regretfulness, on the deck of the Persian.

From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram

Yes, I think Herrick would have forgiven me for that momentary lapse into regretfulness over the white hawthorn.

From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)