| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| regret (n.) |
| when it combines, does so usually with the prepositions over or for, meaning either “remorse over an event in the past,” as in my regrets over [for] my wasted youth, or “sorrow over someone dead or absent,” as in We expressed our regrets over [for] the loss of Aunt Mary. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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