regret vs woe

regret

noun
  • Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing. 

  • The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action. 

verb
  • To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. 

  • To feel sorry about (any thing). 

woe

noun
  • Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness. 

  • A curse; a malediction. 

  • Calamity, trouble. 

How often have the words regret and woe occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )