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a feeling of deep regret for doing something that was wrong

remorse = regret for doing something wrong

remorse = regret (for doing something wrong)

remorse = regret

When he saw what he had done, he was overcome with remorse.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

remorse = a feeling of deep regret

A third alternative was for Roy to try apologizing to Dana again, this time oozing remorse and sincerity.
Carl Hiassen -- Hoot

remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong

remorse = regret for doing something that was wrong

The last thing I wanted was for him to go wallow in remorse.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon

remorse = regret for doing something that was wrong

I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley—
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

remorse = regret for having done wrong

But Baba had found a way to create good out of his remorse.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

remorse = deep regret

"O brave new world, O brave new world ..." In his mind the singing words seemed to change their tone. They had mocked him through his misery and remorse,
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

remorse = regret

But guilt and shame, remorse, ambivalence, those are foreign countries to our kind, which must be learned stone by stone.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong

No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

remorse = regret

...there was a cold gnawing in my inside like a remorse for something wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped

remorse = feeling of deep regret

...shocked to see Hagrid shaking with grief and remorse, great tears leaking down into his beard.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

remorse = deep regret (for his error)

Why do they make you wait so long, trembling in the shadow of fear and remorse?
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank

remorse = feeling of deep regret for doing something that was wrong

As the acuteness of this remorse began to die away, it was succeeded by a sense of joy.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong

But for once I was soaked through with honest remorse.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree

remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong

valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplished
William Shakespeare -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona

remorseful = full of regret for doing something that was wrong

remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong

...something of this gaiety she must have given to me, for I had not one moment of remorse.
Jean Rhys -- Wide Sargasso Sea

remorse = regret for doing something that was wrong

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