Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strike with remorse; touch with compassion.
- To afflict.
- To rebuke.
- To feel remorse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To excite to remorse; to rebuke.
- intransitive verb obsolete To feel remorse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To feel
remorse .
Etymologies
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From the Middle English remorden, from the Anglo-Norman and Middle French remordre and its etymon the Latin remordeō, from re- + mordeō; compare the Catalan remordir, remordre, the French remordre, the Italian rimordere, the Old Provençal remordre, the Portuguese remorder, and the Spanish remorder.
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Examples
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Parce qu'il a jadis sacrifié les oiseaux pour sauver son pays de Napoléon, un général russe à la retraite vit rongé par le remord et harcelé par tous les volatiles.
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Then he began to remord his conscience, and thought his misgovernance towards God had the wyte therof and was the principal cause of his misfortune; calling to mind how he had broken his promise to his uncle the King of England, and had lost the hearts of his nobles throw evil counsel and false flattery of his bishops, and those private counsellors and his courtiers, not regarding his wyse lords 'counsels. "
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862
csteacy commented on the word remord
To remember with regret. From Ammon Shea's interview on WBUR's On Point, 8/19/2008.
August 20, 2008