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remorse
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A Thousand Acres
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- My father was easily offended, but normally he was easily mollified, too, if you spoke your prescribed part with a proper appearance of remorse.†
p. 33.2remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
- I don't think they ever felt remorse.†
p. 51.9
- To imagine Jess gone was to imagine two other impossible things, that he had never returned (but he had, and at times I realized this afresh with a pressing feeling that felt a lot like remorse), or, sometimes, that I was the dead one.†
p. 171.2
- We have to stand up to that, and say, at least to ourselves, that what he's done before is still with us, still right here in this room until there's true remorse.†
p. 216.6
- There has to be remorse.†
p. 234.8
- He could, you know, have remorse.†
p. 237.1
- If you really think he's going to come around and have remorse, then give him some time to think about it.†
p. 238.2 *
- He should not have said it because then I said, "I love you," and he said, "Oh, Ginny," and what I heard in his voice was pure, clear remorse that resonated in the ensuing silence like the note of a bell and told me all I needed to know about every question that lingered from earlier in the summer.†
p. 263.2
- I wanted him to feel remorse and know what he did and what he is, but when you see him around town and they talk about him, he's just senile.†
p. 303.2
- Rose left me a riddle I haven't solved, of how we judge those who have hurt us when they have shown no remorse or even understanding.†
p. 370.6
- Remorse reminds me of Daddy, who had none, at least none for me.†
p. 370.6
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)