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▪ I. remorse, n.|rɪˈmɔːs|
Forms: 4–5 remors, (6 remorrs), 5–7 remorce, 4– remorse.
[a. OF. remors (mod.F. remords), ad. late L. remorsus, vbl. n. f. remordēre: see remord v.]
1. remorse of conscience (or mind) = next. Now somewhat rare and arch. † Also with pl. (cf. 2 b).
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 554 Or hastow som remors of conscience..? 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 171 Þis pope.. havynge remorse of conscience þat he was somwhat put yn by þe emperoure lefte the popehede. 1483Caxton Cato D j, He is euer in doubt and in remors of conscience. 1559Sackville Induct. Mirr. Mag. xxxii, And first within the portche and iawes of Hell Sate diepe Remorse of conscience. 1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 104 Onely for the remorse of his conscience, preferring the seruice of God before all other respects. 1670G. H. tr. Hist. Cardinals ii. i. 110 Perhaps not without some scruples and remorses of Conscience. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4029/2 One of these Lieutenants having a Remorse of Conscience, discovered the..Mater. 1729Law Serious C. xxiii. 467 A man may..go on..without any remorse of mind, or true desire of amendment. 1808Lempriere Univ. Biogr. s.v. Aunoy, One of his three accusers afterwards through remorse of conscience confessed the charge to be false.
2. a. A feeling of compunction, or of deep regret and repentance, for a sin or wrong committed. Also const. at, for, † of (the thing done).
c1400Destr. Troy 1698 Þan a sorow full sodenly sanke in his hert, A Remorce of maters, þat hym mys lyket. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxix. 260 By this monycion he toke remorce in his conscyence. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 173 Vndoubted theyr conscyence sholde haue remorse. 1577T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. 19 The hypocrites..although they feele the remorse of sinne [etc.]. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxii. §16 The fruit of our own ill-doing is remorse. 1641Baker Chron. (1653) 97 The remorse for his undutifulnesse towards his Father, was living in him till he dyed. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 162 Another teaches that there..is no hell but remorse. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 89 When again I was shipwreck'd,..I was as far from Remorse, or looking on it as a Judgment. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 43 Pleasure brings as surely in her train Remorse and Sorrow and vindictive Pain. 1821Shelley Fragment on Keats, Death, in remorse for that fell slaughter,..flew Athwart the stream. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. iii. 180 We have her own confession at full length Made in the first remorse.
†b. With a and pl. A fit of remorse. Obs.
1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox i. 17 To possess unjustly another's means with continuall Remorses and internall Reproaches. 1702Eng. Theophrast. 123 Our repentances are generally not a remorse for the ills we have done. 1720Mandeville Free Thoughts 126 So at one time or other they are troubled with Remorses. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. II. xl. 399 His remorses gradually diminished.
†c. ? Hesitation, scruple. Obs. rare—1.
a1529Skelton Agst. Garnesche ii. 19 As wytles as a wylde goos, ye haue but small remorrs Me for to chalenge.
†3.
a. Sorrow, pity, compassion; also pl. signs of tender feeling. Obs.
a1547Surrey æneid iv. 574 This latter grace, Sister, I craue, haue thou remorse of me. 1568Jacob & Esau v. iv, Well, nature pricketh me some remorse on thee to haue. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. iv. 6 The noble Guyon, mov'd with great remorse, Approching, first the Hag did thrust away. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xii. 54 His Eyes shall be Stor'd wth false tears, in remorse of thee. 1667Milton P.L. v. 566 How shall I relate..without remorse The ruin of so many glorious once..? 1692Dryden Cleomenes v. ii, Womanish sighs and tears, and kind adieus, And those ill-timed remorses of good nature. 1700― Pal. & Arc. ii. 345 Curse on th' unpard'ning Prince, whom Tears can draw To no Remorse: who rules by Lions Law.
†b. remorse of equity, a disposition to relax the strict application of a law. Obs.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lx. §6 Remorse of equitie hath moued diuers of the school diuines..ingenuouslie to grant..that God all-merciful [etc.]. [1878Patmore L' Allegro, Those gentle and unsanction'd lines To which remorse of equity Of old hath moved the School divines.]
†c. without remorse, without mitigation or intermission. Obs.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Nov. 131 The heauens doe melt in teares without remorse. Ibid. 171. 1600 Shakes. Twel. N. ii. iii. 98 That ye squeak out your Coziers Catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice.
†4.
a. Regretful or remorseful remembrance or recollection of a thing. Obs.
a1529Skelton Knolege, aquayntance, etc. 29 Remorse haue I of youre most goodlyhod. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 295 Sundry of the Noble men, partly upon remorse of their former promise made,..made defection to Maude. 1695Temple Hist. Eng. (1699) 578 Either the Fame of his Forces..or Remorse of his Duty, prevail'd with Duke Robert to offer again his Submissions.
†b. Consideration or regard to a matter, etc.
1514in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. App. iv. 8 That it may please his Highness to have Consideration & Remors to this before rehearsed, in considering [etc.]. 1525St. Papers Hen. VIII, VI. 416 The Kinges Highnes hauing most tendre remorce and respect unto the premisses [etc.].
†c. A solemn obligation. Obs. rare—1.
1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 369 Let him command, And to obey shall be in me remorse, What bloody businesse euer.
†5. A matter for regret; a pity. Obs. rare.
1548Gest Pr. Masse in H. G. Dugdale Life (1840) App. i. 76 Is it not a deadely remorse to respect the worthy Clerkes in thys realme..and yet not one to wryte agaynste hyr? 1576Humphrey in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. xliii. 431 That it was a remorse to seem, by sundry apparel, to sunder himself from those brethren.
†6. Biting or cutting force. Obs. rare—1.
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. ii. 15 Their speares with pitilesse remorse Through shield and mayle and haberjeon did wend.
7. Comb., as remorse-smitten, remorse-stirred, remorse-stricken, remorse-stung adjs.
1777E. Ryves Poems 60 'Tis not th' accumulated store Of sparkling gems..Can a remorse-stung mind appease. 1826Scott Woodst. xiv. motto, Be it the working Of the remorse-stirr'd fancy. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 514 Over the side the doctor went, to the horror of the remorse-smitten sea-captain. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 56, I couldn't resist taking a certain fascinated pleasure in his remorse-stricken face.
▪ II. † reˈmorse, v. Obs.
[f. remors-, ppl. stem of L. remordēre: see prec. and remord v.]
1. trans. To affect with remorse.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 196 b/2 Her conscience remorsed hir and [she] fyl doun to hir feet in requyryng pardon. 1563Foxe A. & M. 1703/1 Blaxton..fel in such a quake, & shaking (the conscience belyke remorsing him). 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 62 Now (dissemblingly remorsed) they would needs..set vp another [high priest].
2. intr. To feel remorse.
1530Palsgr. 685/2, I have remorced more in my conscyence than all men knewe of. 1557Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 194 Your hart must nedes remorce of right To graunt me grace. 1690Locke Hum. Und. i. iii. §9 They remorse in one place, for doing or omitting that which others, in another place, think they merit by.
Hence † reˈmorsed ppl. a., of the nature of, affected by, remorse. Obs.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. Wks. 1724 II. 691 Wrong stirs remorsed Grief. 1617J. Moore Mappe Mans Mort. iii. viii. 235 They be reputed to come from a remorsed soule for sinne. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iii. ix. 334 The soule of the remorsed draweth neare to the grave. |