compunctious

Example Sentences

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“Oh, Mrs. Hawthorne, I beg of you not to feel homesick!” he cried, compunctious and really eager.

From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

The wife felt compunctious visitings, and so the husband might say his say without loss of dignity.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

The sense of a tragedy in herself, more pathetic than any she has depicted, touches us with awe, with tenderness, with compunctious thought of our own failures.

From The Chief End of Man by Merriam, George Spring

“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.

A reaction of compunctious loyalty made my very heartstrings ache.

From A Positive Romance 1898 by Bellamy, Edward