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remorseful

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)sfʊl/

adj

Etymology: From remorse + -ful.

  1. Feeling or filled with remorse.

    He was so remorseful that he voluntarily paid full restitution.

  2. Expressing or caused by remorse.

    There was a remorseful look on her face.

    Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.

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