Remorse
[rɪ'mɔːs] or [rɪ'mɔrs]
Definition
(n.) The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life.
(n.) Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Penitence, compunction, contrition, repentance, sorrow, regret, self-reproach, reproach of conscience, stings of conscience, self-condemnation.
Editor: Pasquale
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Compunction, anguish, self-condemnation, penitence, {sting_of_conscience}
ANT:Complacency, self-approval, self-congratulation
Typist: Portia
Definition
n. the gnawing pain of anguish or guilt: (obs.) pity softening.—v.t. Remord′ (obs.) to strike with remorse.—n. Remord′ency compunction.—adj. Remorse′ful full of remorse: compassionate.—adv. Remorse′fully.—n. Remorse′fulness the state of being remorseful.—adj. Remorse′less without remorse: cruel.—adv. Remorse′lessly.—n. Remorse′lessness.
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Examples
- I saw her, and anger, and hate, and injustice died at her bier, giving place at their departure to a remorse (Great God, that I should feel it! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The Veneerings find with swift remorse that they have omitted to invite Miss Bella Wilfer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But she had made Fred feel for the first time something like the tooth of remorse. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I feel the greatest remorse for the disappointment of which I have been the occasion; but you will forgive me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It may be that he pursues her doggedly and steadily, with no touch of compunction, remorse, or pity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Every one of them can be unhappy, every one can feel disappointment and remorse. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You felt no remorse in vexing me, last night. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Christian turned and flung himself on the ferns in a convulsion of remorse, O, what shall I do with my wretched self? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I had caught her in my arms, and the sting and torment of my remorse had closed them round her like a vice. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The wealth of the burghers never failed to provoke their envy and indignation, and they plundered them upon every occasion without mercy or remorse. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I was obliged to hurry away; I was kept out late; and I felt all night such pangs of remorse as made me miserable. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I would have had that fellow shot without the least remorse! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Had I not been armed in proof, the villain had marked me down seven times with as little remorse as if I had been a buck in season. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, Ha! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Secondly, Upon the feeling any remorses for a crime, of which he has been guilty. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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