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    ...shocked to see Hagrid shaking with grief and remorse, great tears leaking down into his beard.  (source)
    remorse = deep regret (for his error)
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    A third alternative was for Roy to try apologizing to Dana again, this time oozing remorse and sincerity.  (source)
    remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
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    But guilt and shame, remorse, ambivalence, those are foreign countries to our kind, which must be learned stone by stone.  (source)
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    No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse.  (source)
    remorse = regret
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    We're at least three hours too late... Make sure y'all sound remorseful, all right?  (source)
    remorseful = full of regret for doing something that was wrong
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    "It's too far," Ezra said, shaking his head remorsefully.†  (source)
    remorsefully = with regret for doing something that was wrong
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    We've got one or two town drunks, but they're always having remorses every time an evangelist comes to town.†  (source)
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    He was a skilled and unremorseful thief, preying mostly on unsuspecting children and always after checking to make sure neither Jenny nor I was watching.†  (source)
    unremorseful = not full of regret
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unremorseful means not and reverses the meaning of remorseful. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    But Baba had found a way to create good out of his remorse.  (source)
    remorse = deep regret
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    Never remorseful, Tony coolly replied, "Same to you."†  (source)
    remorseful = full of regret for doing something that was wrong
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    ' he said half remorsefully.†  (source)
    remorsefully = with regret for doing something that was wrong
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    What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty–they were forced to feel strongly.  (source)
    remorses = regrets
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    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—  (source)
    remorse = regret for having done wrong
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