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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

... assassination Mr. Tulkinghorn. One by starvation, with phthisis Joe. One by chagrin Richard. One by spontaneous combustion Mr. Krook. One by sorrow Lady Dedlock's lover. One by remorse Lady Dedlock. One by insanity Miss Flite. One by paralysis ...

— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... you will propose!' cried the other, excitedly. 'From the prudential point of view, you are right, I have no doubt. But how can you protect me against remorse? If you had received letters such as these three,' he pulled them out of a pocket, 'you would be as miserable as I am. If I don't keep my promise, I shall never know ...

— Born in Exile • George Gissing

... and Julie felt a fresh pang of remorse, perhaps of alarm. Why had she called him to her? What had they to do with each other? But he soon reassured her. He began to talk of Meredith, and the work before her—the important and glorious work, as he naively ...

— Lady Rose's Daughter • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... which was fated had happened and I remained in my agony of solitude and sorrow, after, too, I had drunk of the cup of enduring life and like the Prometheus of old fable, found myself bound to this changeless rock, whereon day by day the vultures of remorse tear out my living heart which in the watches of the night is ever doomed to grow again within my woman's breast, I was plunged into petty troubles of the flesh, aye and welcomed them because their irk at times gave me forgetfulness. When the savage dwellers in this land came to know ...

— She and Allan • H. Rider Haggard

... chances of becoming an ordinary man which you hold out to me, you must admit that I should thoroughly deserve my fate. No, I shall not do as you bid me; the oath of fidelity which I swear to you shall only be absolved by death. Ah! take my life, unless indeed you do not fear to carry a remorse all ...

— The Deserted Woman • Honore de Balzac

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