different between repentance vs remorse

English

Alternative forms

• repentaunce (archaic)

Etymology

First attested circa 14th century, from Old French repentance. More at repent.

Pronunciation

• enPR: [r?-p?n?t?ns], IPA^(key): /???p?nt?ns/
• Hyphenation: re?pen?tance

Noun

repentance (countable and uncountable, plural repentances)

1. The condition of being penitent.
   • 1678, Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, second period

     God hath denied me repentance. His words gives me no encouragement to believe.

2. A feeling of regret or remorse for doing wrong or sinning.

Synonyms

• compunction
• contrition
• penitence
• remorse
• See also Thesaurus:remorse

Related terms

• repent
• repentant
• repentantly
• repented
• repenting

Translations

Anagrams

• penetrance

French

Etymology

Old French

Noun

repentance f (plural repentances)

1. repentance

Related terms

• repentir

Further reading

• “repentance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French repentance

Noun

repentance f (plural repentances)

1. repentance

Related terms

• repentir

Old French

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

repentance f (nominative singular repentance)

1. repentance

Descendants

• English: repentance
• French: repentance

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• apology

Anagrams

• Roemers, roemers

Latin

Participle

remorse

1. vocative masculine singular of remorsus