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Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary | 1986 | Copyright

554. Remorse (See also Regret.)

Ayenbite of Inwit (Remorse of Conscience ) Middle English version of medieval moral treatise, c. 1340. [Br. Lit.: Barnhart, 74]
Deianira commits suicide out of remorse for unwittingly having killed husband, Hercules. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 709]
Hermione commits suicide upon the funeral pyre of her beloved Pyrrhus for having instigated his murder. [Fr. Drama: Racine Andromaque ]
Jocasta commits suicide when she realizes she has married son, Oedipus. [Gk. Lit.: Oedipus Rex ]
Lord Jim tormented by his memory of having saved himself from a sinking ship with 800 Muslims aboard. [Br. Lit.: Joseph Conrad Lord Jim in Magill I, 522]
Manfred magician, living alone in an Alpine castle, broods on his alienation from mankind and on his destruction of the woman he loved. [Br. Poetry: Byron “Manfred”]
Mannon, Orin crazed by guilt for inciting mother’s suicide. [Am. Lit.: Mourning Becomes Electra ]
Oedipus blinds self upon learning of his crimes. [Gk. Lit.: Oedipus Rex ]
Othello commits suicide from guilt for wife’s murder. [Br. Lit.: Othello ]

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Remorse

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Remorse, a tragedy by S. T. Coleridge, written in 1797 as Osorio, produced at Drury Lane 1813.

The story, set in Granada at the time of the Spanish Inquisition, tells of the slow corruption of the character of Osorio, a man who is gradually led by temptations and events into guilt and evil.

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remorse

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

re·morse / riˈmôrs/ • n. deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed: they were filled with remorse and shame. DERIVATIVES: re·morse·ful / -fəl/ adj. re·morse·ful·ly / -fəlē/ adv.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

remorse XIV. — OF. remors (mod. remords) — medL. remorsus, f. remors-, pp. stem of L. remordēre vex, torment, f. RE- + mordere bite.

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