REMORSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remorse mean? 

• REMORSE (noun)
  The noun REMORSE has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

  Familiarity information: REMORSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMORSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

compunction; remorse; self-reproach

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 

Upon this, fear and remorse came over her, and she went into her chamber alone, and sat there weeping; and he followed her there.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I feel the greatest remorse for the disappointment of which I have been the occasion, but you will forgive me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Oh, St. John!" I cried, "have some mercy!" I appealed to one who, in the discharge of what he believed his duty, knew neither mercy nor remorse.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Yours, Mother? Why, you are never angry!" And for the moment Jo forgot remorse in surprise.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But the agony of mind, the remorse, and shame I felt when I became conscious next day!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She paused, and saw with no slight indignation that he was listening with an air which proved him wholly unmoved by any feeling of remorse.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The man who had the guilt upon his soul of having brought such a fate upon his own family might well be driven by remorse to inflict it upon himself.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The instant that he heard of it he made a complete confession to me, so filled was he with horror and remorse.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)