regrettedadj.

1652 tr. Choice Novels & Amarous Tales i. 6 Alwayes martyrizing him with the memory of his so much regretted felicity.

1768 S. Neville Diary 3 July (1950) i. 35 This day being appointed for the wretched worshippere of Royalty to go out of mourning, put myself into it for my much regretted friend, Mr Barron.

1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 371 Ah those regretted days, When boyish innocence was all my praise!

1810 G. Crabbe Borough ii. 24 For then she thought on one regretted Youth.

1861 M. Oliphant tr. C. F. de Montalembert Monks of West I. 53 One of their most courageous and most regretted defenders.

1873 C. A. Warfield Miriam Monfort xii. 485 It was Herod..making others suffer the consequences of his regretted cruelty, his remorseful anguish.

1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent ii. 36 Mostly at the expense of the universally regretted Baron Stott-Wartenheim.

1957 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 76 76 Vincent, together with the regretted Father Abel, had surveyed the Christian monuments of Jerusalem.

1985 R. Guarendi You're Better Parent than you Think! v. 101 Parent-versus-child feuds, in which the possibility of harsh words, regretted actions, and mutual antagonism rises.

2005 T. Sorell Descartes Reinvented v. 137 There are things agents can regret,..even though in a certain sense it was not their will that the regretted actions be done.