compunctious

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The unacknowledged yearnings of nature, excited by his resemblance to his father, made him wish to save his life, while the compunctious visitings of mercy were again repressed by terror for his own.

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane

Then as he tried to comfort her, being very compunctious himself at having failed utterly to trust one so brave and noble, she suddenly drew herself from his embrace.

From How It All Came Round by Meade, L. T.

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 Burney, James

"I am late!" she said with a compunctious glance at the clock.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan

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)