remord

English

Etymology

From the Middle English remorden, from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French remordre and its etymon the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin remordeō, from re- + mordeō; compare the Catalan remordir, remordre, the French remordre, the Italian rimordere, the Old Occitan remordre, the Portuguese remorder, and the Spanish remorder.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĭmôrdʹ, IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmɔːd/

Verb

remord (third-person singular simple present remords, present participle remording, simple past and past participle remorded)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To feel remorse.

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2. (obsolete, transitive) To excite to remorse; to rebuke.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “remord”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• dormer

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French

Verb

remord

1. third-person singular present indicative of remordre