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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Compunctious

· Com·punc·tious · IPA
01 a. Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction.
  1. 1.
    Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction.
    “That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose.” Shak.