Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by or filled with remorse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of remorse; impressed with a sense of guilt.
- Compassionate; feeling tenderly.
- Causing compassion; pitiable.
- Synonyms See
repentance .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of remorse.
- adjective obsolete Compassionate; feeling tenderly.
- adjective obsolete Exciting pity; pitiable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a person Feeling or filled with
remorse . - adjective Expressing or caused by remorse.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
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Examples
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"Fleda, Mamma, will be wrapped in remorseful recollections of having enacted a mob last evening, and have enough occupation in considering how she shall repair damages."
Queechy 1854
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Stacy is not usually what you would call remorseful.
Finding Dignity J. Marie Darden 2005
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Stacy is not usually what you would call remorseful.
Finding Dignity J. Marie Darden 2005
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She had gone down to the street, leaving Mrs. Mortimer still calling remorseful apologies, practical suggestions, and laughing comments on her "tragedy way of taking the world."
The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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Josephine was recalling the remorseful picture drawn by Lee, which she knew was his own portrait.
Snow-Bound at Eagle's Bret Harte 1869
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"Don't you remember," asked Miss Tildy, "how often Johnny's eyes seemed to recall a remorseful memory, and how father would, as now, cry for them to shut out that look which so tormented him?"
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All three, who admited fraud, were described as remorseful and of previous good character.
Express & Star 2009
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Later McInnis told KHOW's Caplis and Silverman that Fischer was "remorseful" and "sick about this."
Jason Salzman: Interview With "Remorseful" Water Researcher Is a Prize Catch 2010
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After the exchange, Mr. Ballmer seemed "remorseful," the person said.
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I do not feel "remorseful," since I had and have no involvement with our Iraq policy.
Archive 2006-11-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006
dmcleod0914 commented on the word remorseful
"He kept up a remoresful mumbling."- Twilight, Stephanie Meyer, pg. 61
November 8, 2010