All 11 Uses
remorse
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The Border Legion
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- Joan Randle reined in her horse on the crest of the cedar ridge, and with remorse and dread beginning to knock at her heart she gazed before her at the wild and looming mountain range.†
Chpt 1remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
- Her remorse and dread increased.†
Chpt 1 *
- And at length Joan marveled to find that out of the affront to her pride, and the quarrel, and the fact of his going and of her following, and especially out of this increasing remorseful dread, there had flourished up a strange and reluctant respect for Jim Cleve.†
Chpt 1remorseful = full of regret for doing something that was wrong
- When death menaced her lover and the most inconceivably horrible situation yawned for her, still she could only think of her passionate yearning to have him know, all in a flash, that she loved him, that she had followed him in remorse, that she was true to him and would die before being anything else.†
Chpt 10remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
- I must have—cared for you then, but I didn't know.... Remorse seized me.†
Chpt 12
- But he was stricken with remorse—he had run off like a coward, he had brought her to this calamity—and he could not rise under it.†
Chpt 12
- And then suddenly he was remorseful.†
Chpt 15remorseful = full of regret for doing something that was wrong
- His remorse, like every feeling of his these days, was exaggerated, wild, with that raw tinge of gold-blood in it.†
Chpt 15remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
- It was a gesture of self-condemnation and remorse.†
Chpt 17
- Instantly Joan saw it—saw in him the return of the other and better Kells, how stricken with remorse.†
Chpt 19
- She suffered remorse—almost regret.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(remorse) a feeling of deep regret for doing something that was wrongSynonym comparison (if you're into word choice):
Many consider the word remorse stronger than the word regret. Also, it is more personal. One might regret that their team lost the game, but feel remorse that they missed the bus and weren't there to help the team. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)