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1 Compunctious -- rank: 1000
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 ...
2 Remorseful -- rank: 352
... 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 ...
3 Compunction -- rank: 352
... 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 ...
4 Repentant -- rank: 223
... Moby Thesaurus abject, apologetic, ascetic, ashamed, atoning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, contrite, embarrassed, expiatory, humble, humbled, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, melted, penitent ...
5 Penitential -- rank: 223
... abject, amendatory, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, balancing, cleansing, compensating, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, contrite, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing, expiatory, humble, humbled, indemnificatory, lustral ...
6 Penitent -- rank: 223
... who determines for the right. Moby Thesaurus Magdalen, abject, apologetic, compunctious, confessor, conscience-stricken, contrite, grief-stricken, humbled, melted, penitential, penitentiary ...
7 Of none effect -- rank: 223
... as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace ...
8 Of no effect -- rank: 223
... as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace ...
9 in effect -- rank: 223
... as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace ...
10 For effect -- rank: 223
... as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace ...
11 Without effect -- rank: 223
... as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace ...
12 Effect -- rank: 223
... as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace ...
13 Sorry -- rank: 223
... minded, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, common, compunctious, conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken, contemptible, contrite, crummy, debasing, degrading, demeaning ...
14 Apologetic -- rank: 223
... allegations. Moby Thesaurus abject, apologia, ascetic, atoning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, conscience-stricken, contrite, defense, excusatory, excusing, expiatory, extenuating, extenuative, humble ...
15 To no effect -- rank: 223
... as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace ...
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