remorse
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remorse
- /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)s/ UK
- /ɹɪˈmɔɹs/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)s
Where it comes from
First attested circa 14th century as Middle English remors, from Old French remors, from Medieval Latin remorsus, from Latin remordeō (“to torment, vex”, literally “to bite back”), from re- + mordeō (“to bite”). More at remord.
noun remorses · remorce
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A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
The accused committed perjury without remorse.
Similar: agenbite, repentance
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Sorrow; pity; compassion.
This is the bloodiest shame,
The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
Presented to the tears of soft remorse.
Similar: misery, sympathy, unhappiness, blueness, tristesse, mirthlessness, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress
Similar: agenbite, remorse, rue, ruth, compunction, contrition, guilt, penitence, repentance, self-reproach, sorriness · Opposite: apathy, irrepentance, nonrepentance, unremorsefulness, unrepentance
verb remorses · remorsing · remorsed · remorce
- To experience remorse or sorrow; to regret. And if we look abroad, to take a view of men as they are, we shall find that they remorse in one place, for doing or omitting that which others, in another place, think they merit by.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: compunction, self-reproach, regret, guilt, contrition, repentance, shame, spite, pity, apology, sorrow, mercy, confession, self-reflection, self-examination, introspection
noun
Similar: agenbite, remorse, rue, ruth, compunction, contrition, guilt, penitence, repentance, self-reproach, sorriness · Opposite: apathy, irrepentance, nonrepentance, unremorsefulness, unrepentance
Translations
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noun feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
| Español | remordimiento, compunción |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 죄의식 joe'uisik, 자책감 jachaekgam, 회오 hoe'o |
| 日本語 | 良心の呵責 ryōshin no kashaku, 悔悟 kaigo |
| 中文 | 悔恨 huǐhèn, 內疚 /内疚 nèijiù, 良心的呵責 /良心的呵责 liángxīn de hēzé |
| Português | remorsos, remordimento |
| Français | remords, componction |
| Deutsch | Reue, Gewissensbisse |
| Italiano | rimorso |
| Ελληνικά | τύψη týpsi, ενοχή enochí |
| Română | remușcare, regret |
| Русский | угрызе́ния со́вести ugryzénija sóvesti, раска́яние raskájanije, сожале́ние sožalénije |
| Tiếng Việt | hối hận |
| العربية | نَدَم nadam, وَخَز الضَّمِير waḵaz aḍ-ḍamīr |
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