remord

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

• (Received 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.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], OCLC 1026313858:

   • Beyng meued either with loue or pitie, or other wyse his conscience remording against the destruction of so noble a prince.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To excite to remorse; to rebuke.
   • a. 1529, John Skelton, Agaynstethe Scottes

     Dyvers People That Remord This Rymyng
     Agaynst the Scot

References

• remord in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• Dormer, dormer

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French

Verb

remord

1. third-person singular present indicative of remordre

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Middle English

Verb

remord

1. Alternative form of remorden