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Adjective: remorseful  ri'mors-ful
  1. Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offences
    "The next morning Burns addressed the remorseful apology to Mrs. Riddell"
    - contrite, rueful, ruthful

See also: penitent, remorsefully, repentant

Encyclopedia: Remorseful