compunctious

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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)

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

My daughter! my daughter!" followed by the compunctious "God!

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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.

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