What is the difference between remorse and regret?

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What is the difference between remorse and regret?
Remorse is a see also of regret. As nouns the difference between remorse and regret is that remorse is a feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning while regret is the instance of such an emotion. As a verb regret is to feel sorry about (a thing that has happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.

remorse

English

(wikipedia remorse )

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

  • A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
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  • * 1897 , ,”
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) Sorrow; pity; compassion.
  • * 1597 , , King John , act 4, sc. 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, self-reproach
    * See also

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from “remorse”)
    * buyer’s remorse
    * remorseless

    Related terms

    (Terms related to “remorse”)
    * remorseful
    * remorsefully
    * remorseless
    * remorselessly

    Hypernyms

    * regret, sadness

    See also

    * apology

    regret

    English

    (wikipedia regret )

    Verb

    (regrett)

  • To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
  • *

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    , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days’ cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}

  • (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).

    • Usage notes

    This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (the (-ing) form), except in set phrases with tell, say, and inform, where the to infinitive is used. See

    Derived terms

    * regretter

    Noun

  • Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
  • * Macaulay
    • What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe ?
  • * Clarendon
    • Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
  • * Washington Irving
    • From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
  • (obsolete) Dislike; aversion.

    • See also

    * remorse
    * repentance

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