remorsefulness

Well, hell, he thought, with a kind of sullen remorsefulness.

"Drop that remorsefulness, will you?

"To Mike Tyson's credit, I appreciated his remorsefulness today, and I think he feels sorry about the biting incident.

The very choice of this subject would seem the epitome of the Baroque; for it is a commonplace that the penitent Magdalen, with her combination of past sensuality and current remorsefulness, was a favorite object of contemplation to the Counter-Reformation."