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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_166923" /> ==
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_166923" /> ==
<p> (1): (n.) The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life. </p> <p> (2): (n.) Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion. </p>
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== Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20425" /> ==
== Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20425" /> ==

Latest revision as of 09:17, 13 October 2021

King James Dictionary [1]

REMORSE, n. remors'. L. remorsus, from remordeo.

1. The keen pain or anguish excited by a sense of guilt compunction of conscience for a crime committed. 2. Sympathetic sorrow pity compassion.

Curse on th' unpard'ning prince, whom tears can draw to no remorse.

This sense is nearly or quite obsolete.

Webster's Dictionary [2]

(1): ( n.) The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life.

(2): ( n.) Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.

Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [3]

Uneasiness occasioned by a consciousness of guilt. When it is blended with the fear of punishment, and rises to despair, it constitutes the supreme wretchedness of the mind.

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