remorse means A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 65 out of 100.
remorse is pronounced /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)s/.
Etymology
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
- A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.“In criminal proceedings, empirical studies have shown that remorse plays an important role in observers’ judgments of defendants.”
- 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.”
verb
- 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.”