sorriness

Perhaps if I told him I knew how wicked I was, the sorriness would come later.

An odd feeling of sorriness for her step-mother came over Joan.

But she did not tell them of the sorriness of her situation: it might have brought reproach upon him.

And her sorriness held her heart warm, in the glow of giving comfort.

His voice was thick with sorriness, and he could hardly get the words out.