compunctious

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The sense of a tragedy in herself, more pathetic than any she has depicted, touches us with awe, with tenderness, with compunctious thought of our own failures.

From The Chief End of Man by Merriam, George Spring

He sat and looked at her for some moments with an expression partly complacent and partly compunctious.

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.

But your friend will have no such compunctious visitings.

From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir

Then I thought of the Manhattan, 90 towards whom I have guilty and compunctious feelings.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis