REMORSE, REMORSEFUL
ADJECTIVES
► ALL SNOT AND TEARS sorry, remorseful, mournful → Brit. sl.
► COMPUNCTIOUS having or feeling compunction; pricking to the conscience; causing regret or misgiving; remorseful, repentant → 1605
NOUNS
► AFTER-STANG a pang of remorse → 1897 Sc.
► AGENBITE remorse → 1340 chiefly literary usage
► DIRDUMS the twingings of conscience, remorse → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GAINBITE a biting back again, i.e., remorse → obs.
► ILTA remorse, sorrow at one’s own conduct → 1922 Sc.
► REMORDENCY compunction, remorse → 1717 obs.
► RUTH contrition, repentance; remorse → a1200
► TWINGE a pang of shame, remorse, sorrow, or the like; a prick of conscience → 1622
► WHITE GUILT remorse or shame felt by a White person with respect to racial inequality and injustice → 1947 orig. US
VERBS
► BEAL to swell with pain or remorse → 1768 Sc.
► PRICK to cause mental pain or discomfort to; to sting with sorrow or remorse; to grieve, to pain, to torment → a1000
► PRICKLE to affect with a feeling of mental pain, sorrow, or remorse → a1513 obs.
► SMITE of the heart, conscience, or spirit: to cause a person to have painful feelings such as guilt or remorse; to distress; to disquiet → a1382 arch.
► WHIP THE CAT to feel remorse; to regret something → 1847 Aust. sl.
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