a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms ci. 14 Thou risende vp, Lord, shalt han mercy of Sion; for time of his rewing [L. miserandi], for ther is comen time.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 27341 (MED) Þe preist..Wit suet and luueli sermoning..lede penant to half-reuing.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 439 Ruynge [King's Cambr. rvyn], for a thynge [Winch. or forthynkyng], penitudo, penitencia.

1559 R. Ascham in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 361 Cause of greife and sorrowe to your selfe, of chideing and rueing to your lord.

1583 G. Babington Briefe Conf. Frailtie & Faith 31 This discomfort and griefe that you have conceived by rewing of your life.

1611 W. Mure Misc. Poems i. 106 Þe poysonous potioune of late rewing.

a1618 J. Sylvester Woodman's Bear xii, in Wks. (1880) II. 308 Who the eager game pursuing, Lost her Ladies in the chase, Till shee heard the wretche's ruing.

1696 A. Hamilton Cordial for Christians 77 God..gives us this Gift without Rueing and Repenting.

1793 in W. Dale New Lyric Repos. 36 Sprightly lads and lasses, wooing, Ere it be too late for rueing.

1844 E. B. Browning Lost Bower xxxii Did she pause in tender rueing Here of all her sylvan scorn?

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxviii. 92 A step which might afterwards cause bitter rueing to her husband.

1902 K. H. D. Cecil Poems 197 O that I were a spirit of skies, Keeper of men's secret doings, That I might see with pitiful eyes Sin's all-sorrowful ruings!

a1990 B. Coffey Poems & Versions (1991) 242 You were thirst and hunger and you were fruit You were heartbreak and ruings and you were the miracle.

2009 BBC Monitoring Europe (Nexis) 3 Feb. The Iraqi people are striding into a new future. This could have been a step forward for mankind if only the Iraqi people had been able to take this step without ruing, death, conflict and fighting.

1664 S. Rutherford Joshua Redivivus 522 If the bargain were to make again, Christ would give no less for you then what he hath already given; he is far from ruing.

1726 T. Boston Let. 21 May in Memoirs (1776) App. 35 Stand to the bargain, and check yourselves for any semblance of rueing.

1748 J. Nevay Nature Covenant of Grace xi. 116 There will be no Rueing of the Match [sc. the Covenant]: it is in loving Kindness.

1977 J. Pepper What Thing to Say 41 On the eve of the wedding he called on the bride to be and said, ‘Ah was just wonderin' there if ye had any noting of rueing.’

1982 V. M. Slone How we Talked (2009) 16 If..someone offered to give you what you had asked, you must take this price, even if you had later changed your mind and did not want to sell at that price. It was counted very shameful if you did not, and was called ‘ruing back’.

OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke (headings to readings) lxvi Paenitenti uero fratri etiam septuagies septies præcipit remittendum : ðeæm hræwende æc broðer uutedlice undseofontig siða seofa siða heht þætte were forgefen.

1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. i. 71 I wretche most weake, with ruing heart beseeche thy pardon.

1814 J. Galt Witness ii. i, in New Brit. Theatre I. 16 Like the ruing prodigal reclaim'd.

1835 J. Galt Contrib. Greenock Calamity Fund 10 The direful legacies that sins bequeath; The ruing thoughts that burrow in the breast; The mental cancers that make welcome death.

1890 F. W. O. Ward 'Twixt Kiss & Lip (ed. 3) 312 What is Life? Bearing still the cross of bane Up the stony steps of pain; Faint and ruing, Yet pursuing; Offering humbly hope's last breath, To the veilèd angel, Death.

1910 S. H. Perry Poems 41 Welaway love's golden past!—‘Nay, O ruing heart’ steadfast, ‘Nay’ were Wisdom's tone.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 27153 (MED) Preist agh be skilwis, soft, and meke, Reuand, rightwis.

1597 J. Dowland 1st Bk. Songes sig. F2 Vewing ruing lips to kisse.

1637 S. Rutherford Let. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) ccviii. 400 Christ's love..must be a rueing, a pitifull, a melting-hearted love.

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 104^v Of lofty ruing towers the fals the feller be.