compunctious

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What hindered him from immediately acting upon it was a compunctious forecast of the concern which would prevail in his family, if he absented himself contrary to expectation.

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane

Then as he tried to comfort her, being very compunctious himself at having failed utterly to trust one so brave and noble, she suddenly drew herself from his embrace.

From How It All Came Round by Meade, L. T.

The wife felt compunctious visitings, and so the husband might say his say without loss of dignity.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

The English translator, speaking of the sacking of Panama, has expressed himself with a strange mixture of boasting and compunctious feeling.

From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James

"Why do you bother about those brats, Miss Liddon, while the nurse spends all her time flirting over the back fence?" their father said, in a gay but compunctious tone.

From A Humble Enterprise by Cambridge, Ada