Synonyms:
- anxiety,
- apologies,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bitterness,
- compunction,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- embarrassment,
- grief,
- guilt,
- guilty conscience,
- humiliation,
- mortification,
- pangs of conscience,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitently,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- repining,
- rue,
- ruefulness,
- self-reproach,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- wistfulness,
- woe