compunctious

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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

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

The unacknowledged yearnings of nature, excited by his resemblance to his father, made him wish to save his life, while the compunctious visitings of mercy were again repressed by terror for his own.

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane

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 felt compunctious, even inclined to act on the other’s warning and advice.

From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Mitford, Bertram