Ashame vs Remorse - What's the difference?
ashame | remorse |
(rare) To make ashamed; to shame.
* 1740 , The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle , (ed.), vol 10,
* 1860 , , Julian Home: A Tale of College Life ,
* 1983 , Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) Oct 18 - Dec 1 ,
* 2009 , Steve Scott, Insiders - Outsiders , ISBN 9781907172205,
* 2013 Sept. 24, Sudarsan Raghavan, "
A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
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* 1897 , ,"
(obsolete) Sorrow; pity; compassion.
* 1597 , , King John , act 4, sc. 3,
As a verb ashame
is (rare) to make ashamed; to shame.As a noun remorse is
a feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.ashame
English
Verb
(asham)p. 245 (Google preview):
- I am young Woman indifferently well brought up in the Country, and might raise my fortune considerably had I not got such a Habit of Sweating, which quite ashames me, when in Company.
p. 99 (Google preview):
- The notice annoyed and ashamed him.
p. 399 (Google preview):
- If it is one Minister who has done it he has ashamed us all and the title "Minister" will not be respected anymore.
pp. 36-37 (Google preview):
- They would think that I had abandoned them, that I could not handle the stress and pressure and this ashamed me immensely.
Kenyan officials say Nairobi mall siege is over," Washington Post (retrieved 30 Sept 2013):
- “As a nation, our head is bloodied but unbowed,” Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a televised address, declaring three days of mourning. “We have ashamed and defeated our attackers.”
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*remorse
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(wikipedia remorse)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
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- 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.
- 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 .
