noun
definition
A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
definition
Sorrow; pity; compassion.
Examples of remorse in a Sentence
There was no remorse in his face.
It wasn't remorse he saw, but fear.
He learned the remorse of hangovers and overeating.
Don't expect me to feel remorse for the scum of the Earth.
Another held him accountable, with remorse causing him to take his own life.
Similar to Brady, there was no remorse in his admittance, and her throat tightened.
On his deathbed remorse seized him; he bestowed his goods on the poor, restored unjust gains, freed his slaves, and every third day till his death listened to the reading of the Koran.
Stricken by remorse, she entered Torpor and was revived by Nanna with his own blood, shortly before the founding of Rome.
Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his wife's infidelities, Justin surprises himself by plunging headlong into a dangerous odyssey.
There was no remorse in his face or tone.
Something else, resembling remorse, tormented him.
She'd been incapable of empathy or remorse.
He continued to stare at her total lack of remorse.
Why doesn't he show more remorse for the murdered, innocent Iraqis?
Dont expect me to feel remorse for the scum of the earth.
It makes me feel…" "Remorse?"
The anecdotes believed and circulated by the royalists that Cromwell died in all the agonies of remorse and fear are entirely false.
At her instigation he threw over his faithful and able favourite, a meanness which is said to have caused him well-deserved remorse.
For the sake of the great cause, the international contingent will have to take into consideration even belated remorse.
It was that night, in deep remorse, Van Gogh famously cut off part of his own ear.
And he understood her feelings, her sufferings, shame, and remorse.
One of the signs of out of control behavior is a lack of remorse.
Most people feel a little bit of remorse over it and regret their actions later.
Feeling remorse for where his greed led him, Blackie ended up pleading guilty to manslaughter and was sent to prison for 10 years.
Jill often felt remorse for the part she played in Katherine's subsequent kidnapping.
To find out if your state has a right to rescind or buyer's remorse law, call your state's Attorney General's office.
In that moment she was certain she saw something in his eyes - something akin to remorse.
The demon lord strode into a portal, leaving her angry and no closer to alleviating her remorse.
Inwardly "he took a remorse of conscience and detestation of mind."
And then, still young, he retired to Amiens, where his relapse from the discipline of the church became the subject of the deepest remorse.
He spent the remainder of his reign wandering from place to place, a mode of life to which he was said to have been driven by the pangs of remorse.
Shipton might have begun to consider that Edith tried to kill him, but I'm inclined to believe he saw where he could use the attempt on his life to give reason for her remorse and subsequent 'suicide'. Remember, he changed his story about blaming me for his fall.
Apologize today, remorse will do you no good.
The opponent, realizing the futility of his actions, will feel remorse.
Wracked with grief and remorse Julian traveled to Rome seeking absolution.
By the third I received a long and almost incoherent letter of remorse, encouragement, consolation, and despair.
The executed murderer repeats his crime, sees his victim and suffers remorse over and over again.
They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear.
Indeed they seem to have no remorse for anything they have done.
How lucky to be free to do nothing and experience no remorse.
They are blocking the truth solely for selfish reasons and they will suffer remorse when they pass over.
Scrooge is overcome by remorse, and vows to reform and change his life.
This scheme gives offenders the opportunity to express genuine remorse through tangible means.
The perpetrators of this evil deed will pay a terrible price in mental remorse when they pass from this world.
Phillips has already gone, with very little remorse.
His reaction, when he realizes what he's done, is guilt (tho not true human remorse ).
You will not have buyer's remorse or fear of the bill.
In an agony of remorse, he would now have abdicated "as being unworthy to reign longer"; but his trembling boyars, fearing some dark ruse, refused to obey any one but himself.
Apart from the two functions of discerning between right and wrong, and actively predisposing the agent to moral action, conscience has further a retrospective action whereby remorse falls upon the man who recognizes that he has broken a moral law.
Overwhelmed with remorse, he went to Tours to implore forgiveness at the tomb of St Martin, and died shortly afterwards.