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its a greatintroduction but this page needs to be expanded. Here we've got the legal version of remorse but the great religions have a good deal to with the meaning of remorse, an interesting issue to be addressed.

i.m.h.o. "remorse" and "compunction" refer to different feelings, I might be wrong.

The Merriam-Webster says that "remorse" is "a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : SELF-REPROACH".

and it offers the word's etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French remors, from Medieval Latin remorsus, from Late Latin, act of biting again, from Latin remordEre to bite again, from re- + mordEre to bite, "to bite again".

As for "compunction", the Merriam-Webster says that it anxiety arising from awareness of guilt <compunctions of conscience> b : distress of mind over an anticipated action or result <showed no compunction in planning devilish engines of...destruction -- Havelock Ellis> and this is its etymology: Middle English compunccioun, from Anglo-French compunction, from Late Latin compunction-, compunctio, from Latin compungere to prick hard, sting, from com- + pungere to prick, "to prick hard"

It would be good to see this expanded. Verblyud 12:59, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fear and remorse

In general, a person needs to be unable to feel fear, as well as remorse in order to develop psychopathic traits.

Interesting. Fear involves anticipating the future. Remorse involves pondering the past. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Paul Murray (talk • contribs) 02:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC).