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What is a pang of conscience?

What is a pang of conscience? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (often pluralized) A feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets.
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Richard is portrayed as suffering a pang of conscience, but as he speaks he regains his confidence and asserts that he will be evil, if such needed to retain his crown.
The two got a contract and started working on the recipes — testing and tweaking, sending notes back and forth, feeding the results to their children — and then Crittenden was hit by a pang of conscience.
Perhaps it was because of some pang of conscience on his part – for covering up the true human cost of warfare in his films – that Huston later made his heartbreakingly beautiful postwar documentary Let There Be Light.
It comes with a pang of conscience, but Schadenfreude sells newspapers and she had a job to do.
They do so, he believes, not out of any pang of conscience, but because those sites elegantly created a one-stop destination.
He did not, as he would have you believe, have a sudden pang of conscience, an epiphany, an experience of sudden and striking realisation.

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