transitive. With impersonal or unexpressed subject and with the person (in early use dative or… To cause (a person) to feel penitence, remorse, or…
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| 释义 | society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > repent (sin, wrongdoing, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > affect with remorse (14) rueOE transitive. With impersonal or unexpressed subject and with the person (in early use dative or… To cause (a person) to feel penitence, remorse, or… remorse1483 transitive. Of a thought, etc.: to afflict or fill (a person) with remorse; = remord, v. 1a. Now rare (U.S. colloquial). remord1567 transitive. Of a thought, emotion, etc.: to afflict or fill (a person or a person's mind) with remorse or guilt. Subcategories:— for some act (1) — prick, smite, etc., with remorse (6) — bring to acknowledgement of error (2) — afflict one's own conscience or self (1) — examine (one's mind, etc.) in a penitent spirit (1) |
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