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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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The teachers themselves organise photocopying of books without any moral compunction, assuming that they are after all helping their students.
She clutched the bundle of wood to her chest like a shield and lied without compunction.
How can soldiers, who are trained to kill enemy combatants without compunction, be decompressed and integrated back into civilian life?
The courts have no similar compunction about making injunctions to prevent torts and these have very much the same effect.
He has no shame and no compunction about throwing around baseless, false accusations such as liar, theft and fraud.
We call them sociopaths because they will cheerfully cheat or attack others without compunction.

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