compunctious

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Her tears had fallen now, but she had no compunctious self-deception, and her long-framed feelings were only complicated, not really altered.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth

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

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

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