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nce for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life. "Nero will be tainted with remorse." Shak.

Feeling remorse. [Obs.]

Full of remorse. The full tide of remorseful passion had abated. Sir W. Scott.

Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." South. "With remorseless cruelty." Milton.

Terminated abruptly, or as it bitten off. Premorse root or leaves (Bot.), such as have an abrupt, ragged, and irregular termination, as if bitten off short.

Utterly remorseless. [Obs. & R.] "Unremorseless death." Cowley.

Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.

Remorse. [Obs.] "With sad commorse." Daniel.

. Shak. By perseverance in the course prescribed. Wodsworth. You hold your course without remorse. Tennyson.

n with despair. Keble. Before he [Bunyan] was ten, his sports were interrupted by fits of remorse and despair. Macaulay.

follow. He cast him down to ground, and all along Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse. Spenser. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. Sir W. Scott. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats James ii. 6. The arrow is now drawn to the head. Atterbury.…

Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense. Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse. Shak.

Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken. Milton.

Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.

To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt. And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip. Spenser. To nip in the bud, to cut off at the verycommencement of growth; to kill in the incipient stage.

A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas Milton.

ke planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.

Same as Premorse.

act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. "The pricks of conscience." A. Tucker.

To excite to remorse; to rebuke. [Obs.] Skelton.