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the receipt your conscience prints long after the transaction closed
means A deep, gnawing regret for something you've done wrong, the kind that keeps revisiting you with guilt.
from From Latin 'remordere,' to bite back or bite again — 're-' (again) plus 'mordere' (to bite), the same root that gnaws through 'morsel' and 'mordant.' Remorse is literally the past sinking its teeth into you a second time, reaching English in the late Middle Ages by way of the medieval Latin 'remorsus' (a biting back) and Old French.
- latin root
- means to bite again, from remordere
- brain seat
- orbitofrontal cortex lights up during regret
- not guilt
- guilt blames the act, remorse aches the self
- buyer's version
- regret over purchases is its own studied phenomenon
- absence diagnostic
- its lack is a marker for psychopathy
for instance
oscar pistorius trial — south african sprinter's 2014 murder conviction of reeva steenkamp, with appeals citing remorse