Remorse

(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.

(n.) Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.

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• I saw her, and anger, and hate, and injustice died at her bier, giving place at their departure to a remorse (Great God, that I should feel it! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The Veneerings find with swift remorse that they have omitted to invite Miss Bella Wilfer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But she had made Fred feel for the first time something like the tooth of remorse. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I feel the greatest remorse for the disappointment of which I have been the occasion; but you will forgive me. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• It may be that he pursues her doggedly and steadily, with no touch of compunction, remorse, or pity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Every one of them can be unhappy, every one can feel disappointment and remorse. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You felt no remorse in vexing me, last night. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Christian turned and flung himself on the ferns in a convulsion of remorse, O, what shall I do with my wretched self? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I had caught her in my arms, and the sting and torment of my remorse had closed them round her like a vice. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The wealth of the burghers never failed to provoke their envy and indignation, and they plundered them upon every occasion without mercy or remorse. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I was obliged to hurry away; I was kept out late; and I felt all night such pangs of remorse as made me miserable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I would have had that fellow shot without the least remorse! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Had I not been armed in proof, the villain had marked me down seven times with as little remorse as if I had been a buck in season. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, Ha! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Secondly, Upon the feeling any remorses for a crime, of which he has been guilty. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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