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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Remorse" Quotes from Famous Books

... the thought served for an elixir. But with whom would my father abide during my absence? Captain Bulsted and Julia saved me from a fit of remorse; they had come up to town on purpose to carry him home with them, and had left a message on my table, and an invitation to dinner at their hotel, where the name of Janet was the Marino Faliero of our review of Riversley people and old times. The captain and his wife ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... honest Country-Couz. when wilt thou understand the Guelphs, and the Gibelins, and learn to talk Treason o' this side the Law? bilk a Whore without remorse; break Windows, and not pay for 'em; drink your Bottle without asking Questions; kill your Man without letting him draw; play away your Money without fear of your Spouse, and stop her Mouth by ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn

... hand, and was sorry that her visit had ended in such an untoward manner. Margaret begged Cousin Sophronia's pardon for anything she might have done amiss. Indeed, the girl's heart was full of a vague remorse. She had tried, but she felt that she might have tried harder to make things go smoothly. But Miss Sophronia bore, she declared, no malice to ...

— Margaret Montfort • Laura E. Richards

... wrongfully charged upon the servants of the family, being at last detected, and his parents taking him very severely to task on account of such an abandoned and depraved conduct, he left them in a fit of anger and remorse, and became a thoughtless and unhappy wanderer; in this situation falling one evening into a company whose mirth and gaiety greatly delighted him, and whose genteel appearance led him to suppose they were gentlemen, though in reality they were no other than ...

— Vice in its Proper Shape • Anonymous

... You have a Law, Lords, that without remorse Dooms such as are belepred with the curse Of foul ingratitude ...

— The Laws of Candy - Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

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