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compunctious, a.|kəmˈpʌŋkʃəs|
(erron. -uous).
[f. stem of compunction + -ous: cf. factious. App. taken up in modern use from Shakes.]
1. Of the nature of, characterized by, or expressing compunction; remorseful.
1605Shakes. Macb. i. v. 46 Stop vp th'accesse, and passage to Remorse, That no compunctious visitings of Nature Shake my fell purpose. 1781J. Moore View Soc. It. (1790) I. xiv. 157 Every compunctious feeling of the heart is sacrificed. 1815Southey Roderick ii. 178 Nor wrung his heart With such compunctious visitings. 1816F. H. Naylor Hist. Germ. I. i. vii. 244 Unrestrained by the compunctuous feelings of pity. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. X. xxi. iv. 34 Friedrich has none of these compunctious visitings. 1886Hall Caine Son of Hagar i. iii, Such compunctious qualms.
2. Having or feeling compunction.
1816Keatinge Trav. I. 246 If..he be compunctious as to life, the like cannot be..said..in regard to property. 1880Mrs. Oliphant He that will not III. 180 Spears had been deeply compunctious for the part he had taken.
Hence comˈpunctiously adv.
1863Not an Angel II. 242 Compunctiously remarking that the dear child did look very pale. 1887Old Man's Favour II. iii. viii. 282 Stung compunctiously at the pathos of the baby's position. |