remorsefuladj.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. iv. i May neuer spirit, vaine or Artier feed The cursed substance of that cruel heart, But (wanting moisture and remorsefull blood) Drie vp with anger, and consume with heat.

1591 T. Lodge Famous Life Duke of Normandy f. 31 After some deuout prayers, accompanyed with remorsefull teares, he mounted on horsseback.

1606 No-body & Some-body sig. E2 I know his penitentiall words proceede From a remorcefull spirit.

1612 W. Sclater Sick Souls Salve 20 An heart of flesh, remorsefull for sinne.

1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned ii. iii. 198 A contrite and remorseful confession of his former offences.

1726 J. Mitchell & A. Hill Fatal Extravagance iv. iv. 56 Can'st thou sleep, unstung, By guilty Startings, and remorseful Dreams?

a1763 W. Shenstone Oeconomy ii, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 300 From a blacker cause Springs this remorseful gloom.

1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 294 Many a bitter hour and year of remorseful sorrow.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. (1855) x. 324 He has no compunctions of conscience, no remorseful remembrances.

1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 129 191 The remorseful philanthropist did all in his power to console him.

1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 12/3 ‘Forgive you? I can't forgive myself,’ said Harberton, with remorseful tenderness.

1962 R. Trevor Davies Spain in Decline 1621–1700 iii. 63 Behind his royal robes and stately port we see the poor soul, so remorseful in the knowledge of its sin.

2003 D. Brown Da Vinci Code (2004) lxxxviii. 483 Langdon sat on a grungy bench nearby, feeling remorseful.

1610 R. Niccols England's Eliza in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) 802 The Briton Maid remorsefull of their woes.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads viii. 208 To this euen weeping king did Ioue remorsefull audience giue.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iii. 13 Thou art a Gentleman:..Valiant, wise, remorse-full, well accomplish'd. View more context for this quotation

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) x. 331 Eurylochus straight hasted the report Of this his fellowes most remorcefull fate.

1702 C. Brent Ess. Nature Guilt & Lying ii. 120 He does not forget to make them reflect remorsefully on upon their violations of Military Faith and Honour.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 12 Him Sir Bedivere Remorsefully regarded thro' his tears.

1997 C. Haas Alexandria in Late Antiq. iii. 49 She became..ill, returned to her old neighborhood and remorsefully asked her former neighbors to take her to the patriarch for baptism.

a1617 S. Hieron Wks. (1620) I. 370 How good in Gods sight was the remorsefulnesse of that poor soule.

1887 A. Elliot Old Man's Favour I. ii. ii. 229 ‘It might be best for you’, muttered her lover in sudden gloomy remorsefulness.

1997 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 8 July The guilty plea and his remorsefulness were taken into account when deciding the penalty.