Ge-hreówan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-hreówan

Substitute: ge-hreówan; p. -hreáw, -hreów. I. to cause sorrow to, grieve a person (acc.). (I) the subject a noun :-- Mec þīn weá set heortan gehreáw, Cri. 1494. Mec his bysgu gehreáw, Gū. 686. (2) without subject :-- Gehrēues mec paenitet me, Lk. L. 17, 4. II. to cause sorrow, repentance, or regret to a person (dat.).(I) the subject a noun :-- Ne selle mon to fēla . . . dȳ lǣs hwā him self weorde tō wǣdlan, and him donne gehreówe sió ælmesse, Past. 325, 8.(2) the subject a pronoun representing a circumstance already mentioned :-- Satanus swearte geþōhte þæt hē wolde on heofonum hēhseld wyrcan . . . Him þæt eft gehreáw. Sae. 374. Ne wilnad nā se wīsa tō hrædlīce dǣre wræce, deáh hē gegremed sié, ac wȳscd dæt hit (the wrongdoing) him (the wrongdoer) gehreówe, dæt hē (the wise man) hit mæge siddan forgifan, Past. 220, 16. Þec gelegdon on bend hǣdene . . . Him þæt gehreówan mæg, þonne heó endestæf gesceáwiad. Sat. 540. (3) without subject and followed by a clause giving reason for regret :-- Þā gehreów hym ꝥ hyne ǣfre swā on hys geþōhte getweóde, Shrn. 155, 18. [O. H. Ger. ge-[h]riuwan.] ge-hreowan