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noun

Remorse 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. "Nero will be tainted with remorse."

Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion. "Curse on the unpardoning prince, whom tears can draw To no remorse." "But evermore it seem'd an easier thing At once without remorse to strike her dead."

Synonyms: Compunction; regret; anguish; grief; compassion. See Compunction.

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Etymology of 'Remorse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Remorse" Quotes from Famous Books

... coolest and most deliberate malice, without horror. Amidst these tragical events,—of one person nearly murdered, of another answerable for the issue, of a worthy governor hurt in his dearest interests, the fate of America in suspense,—here is a man who, with the utmost insensibility of remorse, stands up and avows himself the author of all. I can compare it only to Zanga, in ...

— Benjamin Franklin • John Torrey Morse, Jr.

... than the wave: Does not her song which mounts the air Reproach thee with its grand despair? Why dost thou hurry to the river? Why dost thou call, why dost thou shiver, While she whom thou hast driven away Is bold amidst the chilly spray? What good is all thy vain remorse? Thinkst thou from jaws of death to force A sacrifice so lightly thrust Upon the altar of thy lust? A host like thee could nothing urge To meet one tone of her ...

— Indian Legends of Minnesota • Various

... mother was capable of adding by another reproachful word to the remorse she seemed to feel. So ...

— The Bridal March; One Day • Bjornstjerne Bjornson

... least who were guarantied by the Company, such as the Begums of Oude and several of the principal nobility of the Nabob's family, would have been secure. He, indeed, says that pensions shall be given them; for at this time he had not got the length of violating, without shame or remorse, all the guaranties of the Company. "There shall," says he, "be pensions given." If pensions were to be given to the value of the estate, I ask, What has this violent act done? You shake the security of property, and, instead of suffering a man to gather his own profits with ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XII. (of XII.) • Edmund Burke

... pathetic, pitiful. One listener in that circle felt, in spite of his own misery, a pang of remorse and a little dread. After all, perhaps it would have been ...

— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln

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