The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
REMORSE
compunction, remorse, self-reproach
(noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
remorse (countable and uncountable, plural remorses)
A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
(obsolete) Sorrow; pity; compassion.
Synonyms
• (regret or sadness for doing wrong): agenbite, compunction, contrition, penitence, repentance, rue, self-reproach
• See also remorse
Hypernyms
• regret, sadness
Anagrams
• Roemers, roemers
Source: Wiktionary
Re*morse" (r*mrs"), n. Etym: [OE. remors, OF. remors,F. remords, LL. remorsus, fr. L. remordere, remorsum, to bite again or back, to torment; pref. re- re- + mordere to bite. See Morsel.]
1. The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life. "Nero will be tainted with remorse." Shak.
2. Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion. Curse on the unpardoning prince, whom tears can draw To no remorse. Dryden. But evermore it seem'd an easier thing At once without remorse to strike her dead. Tennyson.
Syn.
– Compunction; regret; anguish; grief; compassion. See Compunction.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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