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What does compunctious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.
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No compunctious visitings of conscience seem to have haunted her.
My firm resolution to hit my antagonist was now confirmed, and no compunctious visitings unnerved my arm.
Recollecting what his own method of bringing her round had been, his conscience gives him a compunctious stab.
Unluckily, when these compunctious visitings seized me I was standing by a rostrum of heterodoxy.
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.
At length a compunctious vision shoots across the mind of the truant composer.

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