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Definition of remorse : 1. Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.
2. 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.

Synonyms:

guilt, study at repentance, self-reproof, self-condemnation, compunction, remorsefulness, penitency

breast-beating, penitence, apology, self-reproach, contriteness, attrition, atonement, repentance, confession, regret

lamentation, contrition, shame, qualm, rue, sorriness, grief, heartache, sorrow

Usage examples:

• From that moment she trembled at her danger, and quivered under the remorse which terror brings. - "Not Pretty, But Precious", John Hay, et al..
• Hope was yet alive, for she had shown me tenderness, and once it had seemed as though a passing shadow of remorse had shot across her brightness. - "Simon Dale", Anthony Hope.
• The old peasant laughed at her grief as he said: " Then, as now, I shall have no soul to trouble me with remorse or conscience"; and the Countess covered her eyes with her hand and beckoned silently that he should go. - "Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race", Maud Isabel Ebbutt.