Meanings
- uncountableThe state or condition of being unregretful.
Those who have accused him of an all-absorbing love of power should remember the seeming unregretfulness with which he surrendered the absolute rule of the Reichsland to a man of whom, in some respects, he was believed to be jealous, as of one with a genius for statesmanship only second to his own.
1885, Charles Lowe, The German Empire
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰreh₁d-
- Proto-Germanic*grētaną
- Frankish*grātan
- Old French*greter
- Old Frenchregreter
- Middle Englishregretten
- Englishregret
- Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós
- Proto-Germanic*fullaz
- Englishregretful
- Englishunregretful
- Englishunregretfulness
From unregretful + -ness.
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unregretfulness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unregretfulness
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