compunctious

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A very modest and very happy smile and deepening blush answered that; and she ran away with a sudden compunctious remembrance of Mr. Linden's dinner.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan

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

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

Finally the servants gave up the attempt to coax him back into the world, and with a compunctious pity they spread an old rug for him on the chest, and fed him faithfully every day.

From An Isle in the Water by Tynan, Katharine

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

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane