compunctious

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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 Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

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)

Her lover now essays to soothe The dark compunctious visitings, That assail the lady’s breast With a thousand thousand stings, For that she had thrown away This, the paragon of rings.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

Miss Colishaw's grim indignation, Mrs. Joy's cool audacity, her own compunctious helplessness,—all were indicated in turn.

From A Little Country Girl by Coolidge, Susan

“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.