different between heartache vs remorse

English

Alternative forms

• heart-ache

Etymology

From Middle English heorteece, heorte-ece, from Old English heorte?e, equivalent to heart +? ache.

Pronunciation

Noun

heartache (countable and uncountable, plural heartaches)

1. Very sincere and difficult emotional problems or stress

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English

Alternative forms

• remorce (obsolete)

Etymology

First attested circa 14th century as Middle English remors, from Old French remors, from Medieval Latin remorsum, from Latin remorde? (“I torment, I vex”, literally “I bite back”), from re- +? morde? (“I bite”). More at remord.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-môrs?, IPA^(key): /???m??(?)s/
• (US) enPR: r?-môrs?, IPA^(key): /???m??s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s
• Hyphenation: re?morse

Noun

remorse (countable and uncountable, plural remorses)

1. A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
   • 1897, Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis,"

     Failure, disgrace, poverty, sorrow, despair, suffering, tears even, the broken words that come from lips in pain, remorse that makes one walk on thorns, conscience that condemns . . . —all these were things of which I was afraid.

2. (obsolete) Sorrow; pity; compassion.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, King John, act 4, scene 3,

     This is the bloodiest shame,

     The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,

     That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage

     Presented to the tears of soft remorse.

Synonyms

• (regret or sadness for doing wrong): agenbite, compunction, contrition, penitence, repentance, rue, self-reproach
• See also Thesaurus:remorse

Hypernyms

• regret, sadness

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See also

• apology

Anagrams

• Roemers, roemers

Latin

Participle

remorse

1. vocative masculine singular of remorsus