LekhoriLekhoriA 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.
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 (...
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