Compunctious definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary COMPUNCTIOUS, a. Pricking the conscience; giving pain for offenses committed. Let no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose. Merriam Webster's adjective see compunction Webster's 1913 Dictionary Compunctious Com*punc"tious, a. Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. --Shak. Soule's ...
... ADV with v Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Compunctious, contrite, repentant, penitent, sorrowful. Moby Thesaurus anxious, apologetic, ashamed, bad, bitter, compunctious, conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken, contrite, embarrassed, full of remorse, guilty ...
... of misgiving ; scruple < cheated without compunction > Synonyms: see penitence, qualm • compunctious adjective Oxford Reference Dictionary n. (usu. with neg.) 1 the ... scruple (without compunction; have no compunction in refusing him). Derivatives: compunctious adj. compunctiously adv. Etymology: ME f. OF componction f. eccl ...