compunctious

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She had also children; and as all, without exception, lived to be distinguished men and virtuous women, we may give her credit for some attention to their education,—some compunctious visitings of nature on their account.

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

He sat and looked at her for some moments with an expression partly complacent and partly compunctious.

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane

But your friend will have no such compunctious visitings.

From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir

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)

Hitherto, in the midst of his lowest depravity, he had always experienced compunctious visitings; he had been always haunted by a sense of forfeited respectability; and had frequently felt a feeble desire to reform.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy