compunctious

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Finally the servants gave up the attempt to coax him back into the world, and with a compunctious pity they spread an old rug for him on the chest, and fed him faithfully every day.

From An Isle in the Water by Tynan, Katharine

Catharine, inured to treachery and hardened in vice, was apparently a stranger to all compunctious visitings.

From Henry IV, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

“I can never, never thank you enough,” she said, and held out to him a hand that somehow pleased him, and made him compunctious at the same time—such a white, slender, gentlewoman’s hand it was.

From In the Mist of the Mountains by Macfarlane, J.

The wicked often feel compunctious visitings in the midst of their sins, or smart under the rod of civil justice, or are tortured with natural evils.

From Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker by Golden, M. (Meletios)

Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies moldering before him?

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)