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What does compunctious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.
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Yet he describes himself as subject to compunctious visitations from that silent quarter.
At length a compunctious vision shoots across the mind of the truant composer.
My firm resolution to hit my antagonist was now confirmed, and no compunctious visitings unnerved my arm.
Guston, who died of a heart attack in 1980, at the age of sixty-six, had seemed the most compunctious member of American art's greatest generation.
No compunctious visitings of conscience seem to have haunted her.
Unluckily, when these compunctious visitings seized me I was standing by a rostrum of heterodoxy.

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