Definition of Remorsefully

1. Adverb. In a rueful manner. "`I made a big mistake,' he said ruefully"

Exact synonyms: Contritely, Ruefully
Partainyms: Contrite, Remorseful, Rueful

Definition of Remorsefully

1. Adverb. Done with remorse; in a remorseful manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Remorsefully

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Remorsefully

remontoir
remontoirs
remora
remoralize
remoralized
remoralizes
remoralizing
remoras
remord
remording
remorid
remorids
remorse
remorsed
remorseful
remorsefully (current term)
remorsefulness
remorseless
remorselessly
remorselessness
remorses
remort
remorted
remortgage
remortgaged
remortgager
remortgagers
remortgages
remortgaging
remorting

Literary usage of Remorsefully

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1875)
"And I've been asleep all night," cried Janet, remorsefully. " Well, it wasn't likely you'd be anything else, was it ? You wasn't knocked down with a ..."

2. Vacation Verses by Alice Mary Dowd (1891)
"remorsefully now a glance he cast Upon the mistakes in account with his past; The last page was reached in his day-book fair, And showed him a life ..."

3. Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages by Wilhelm Wägner, M. W. Macdowall (1883)
"Only half remorsefully, for she felt her heart as full of hatred to Hagen as it ever had been. Meanwhile the Nibelungs had not perished in the flames, ..."

4. Romances and Epics of Our Northern Ancestors: Norse, Celt and Teuton by Wilhelm Wägner (1907)
"Only half remorsefully, for she felt her heart as full of hatred to Hagen as it ever had been. Meanwhile the Nibelungs had not perished in the flames, ..."

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