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What is a compunction?

What is a compunction? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.
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Altogether this provided an ideological charter for the most extreme action, without compunction or remorse.
Good humans feel no compunction about exterminating inhuman creatures that prey upon the innocent.
They would have no compunction about silencing a fellow countryman who'd discovered their hidden lair.
The teachers themselves organise photocopying of books without any moral compunction, assuming that they are after all helping their students.
How can soldiers, who are trained to kill enemy combatants without compunction, be decompressed and integrated back into civilian life?
He has no shame and no compunction about throwing around baseless, false accusations such as liar, theft and fraud.

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