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, edited by Ernest Rhys, 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:

     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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Dormer, dormer

French

Verb

remord

1. third-person singular present indicative of remordre

Middle English

Verb

remord

1. Alternative form of remorden