remorse

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He was overwhelmed and wrote to Proust, apologising for the rejection, calling it "the gravest error" and "one of the most burning regrets, remorses, of my life."

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2013

Secondly, Upon the feeling any remorses for a crime, of which he has been guilty.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions, passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark

Dear Boswell,—If you could conceive the many twitches of conscience I have felt upon your account, the agitations, the compunctions, the remorses, you would certainly forgive me.

From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

I appreciated the reproachful irony concealed in this last sentence; but I had gone too far to trouble myself about remorses of conscience regarding him.

From French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Avril, Paul