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Mourning vs Remorse - What's the difference?

mourning | remorse |

As nouns the difference between mourning and remorse

is that mourning is the act of expressing or feeling sorrow or regret; lamentation while remorse is a feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.

As a verb mourning

is .

mourning

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

  • The act of expressing or feeling sorrow or regret; lamentation.
  • Feeling or expressing sorrow over someone's death.
  • * 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) , Chapter 23
  • "My greatest wish now," she added, "is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning ; and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it."
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 19, author=Kerry Brown, work=The Guardian
  • , title= Kim Jong-il obituary , passage=Unsurprisingly for a man who went into mourning for three years after the death in 1994 of his own father, the legendary leader Kim Il-sung, and who in the first 30 years of his political career made no public statements, even to his own people, Kim's career is riddled with claims, counter claims, speculation, and contradiction. There are few hard facts about his birth and early years.}}
  • The traditional clothes worn by those who mourn (in Western societies, typically coloured black).
  • * 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 88:
  • ‘I'm bored. I can't go out anywhere because it's too soon and I have to wear this disgusting mourning .’
  • Drapes or coverings associated with mourning.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • The houses to their tops with black were spread, / And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid.

    remorse

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

  • A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=Steven Morris , title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.}}
  • * 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

    Hypernyms

    * regret, sadness

    See also

    * apology