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REMORSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
Synonyms:
compunction; remorse; self-reproach
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("remorse" is a kind of...):
regret; rue; ruefulness; sorrow (sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remorse"):
guilt; guilt feelings; guilt trip; guilty conscience (remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense)
penance; penitence; repentance (remorse for your past conduct)
Context examples:
Marianne's note, by assuring me that I was still as dear to her as in former days, that in spite of the many, many weeks we had been separated, she was as constant in her own feelings, and as full of faith in the constancy of mine as ever, awakened all my remorse.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She could remember dozens who had persevered in every possible vice, going on from crime to crime, murdering whomsoever they chose, without any feeling of humanity or remorse; till a violent death or a religious retirement closed their black career.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He had no sooner been free from the horror and remorse attending the first few days of Louisa's accident, no sooner begun to feel himself alive again, than he had begun to feel himself, though alive, not at liberty.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The King, the Queen, Buckingham, Wolsey, Cromwell, all were given in turn; for with the happiest knack, the happiest power of jumping and guessing, he could always alight at will on the best scene, or the best speeches of each; and whether it were dignity, or pride, or tenderness, or remorse, or whatever were to be expressed, he could do it with equal beauty.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I looked up with a flush upon my face and remorse in my heart, but Mr. Mell's eyes were fixed on Steerforth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart which nothing could remove.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A week of remorse nearly made Meg sick, and the discovery that John had countermanded the order for his new greatcoat reduced her to a state of despair which was pathetic to behold.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
As the acuteness of this remorse began to die away, it was succeeded by a sense of joy.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I was obliged to hurry away; I was kept out late; and I felt all night such pangs of remorse as made me miserable.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
