Rue: alternatives and connections

The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.

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A pricking; stimulation.

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Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.

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The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.

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The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life.

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The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.

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Trial, as a test or experiment.

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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

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Heaviness; firmness.

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Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.

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Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or…

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Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or…

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Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.

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Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.

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Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or…

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Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.

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The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief a…

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