Definition of "ruefulness" [ruefulness]

• The property of being rueful. (noun)

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• "The way Ward balances ruefulness and hope is singularly impressive."
• "She tried to keep the ruefulness out of her voice."
• "Brought to his knees, with the evidence of Wolsey's duplicitous intentions scattered in letters on the floor, Cochrane provides, in the vein of Richard II, a moving account of a titan cut down to admirably human ruefulness."