remord

English

Etymology

From the Middle English remorden, from the Anglo-Norman and Middle French remordre and its etymon the 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

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To feel remorse.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir T. Elyot to this entry?)
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To excite to remorse; to rebuke.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Skelton to this entry?)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

French

Verb

remord

  1. third-person singular present indicative of remordre
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