compunctious

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She has no compunctious visitings for the frauds she has practised, and the misery she has inflicted upon her deceased husbands.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

Her lover now essays to soothe The dark compunctious visitings, That assail the lady’s breast With a thousand thousand stings, For that she had thrown away This, the paragon of rings.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

She must have gone indoors, they concluded, and Esther began to feel very compunctious for having left her alone so long.

From The Carroll Girls by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

Catharine, inured to treachery and hardened in vice, was apparently a stranger to all compunctious visitings.

From Henry IV, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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