remorse
/ɹɪˈmɔɹs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The accused committed perjury without remorse."
- "In criminal proceedings, empirical studies have shown that remorse plays an important role in observers’ judgments of defendants."
- "Failure, disgrace, poverty, sorrow, despair, suffering, tears even, the broken words that come from lips in pain, remorse that makes one walk on thorns, conscience that condemns . . . —all these were things of which I was afraid."
- "This is the bloodiest shame, The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse."
- "And if we look abroad, to take a view of men as they are, we shall find that they remorse in one place, for doing or omitting that which others, in another place, think they merit by."
- "When they have accepted their advice and have some upleasant experience then they remorse."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪˈmɔɹs/
- British English: /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)s/
Usage
Inflected Forms
remorses (plural)
remorce (alternative, obsolete)
remorses (present, singular)
remorsing (participle, present)
remorsed (participle, past)
remorsed (past)