compunctious
Example Sentences
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She felt compunctious, even inclined to act on the other’s warning and advice.
From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Bertram Mitford
No compunctious visitings of conscience seem to have haunted her.
From Notable Women of Olden Time by Anonymous
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 M. (Meletios) Golden
All this occurred in a moment, and it was not any lucid and real perception of difficulties, but only a sudden alarmed compunctious consciousness that filled her mind.
From Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
The English translator, speaking of the sacking of Panama, has expressed himself with a strange mixture of boasting and compunctious feeling.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney
