Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With compunction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With compunction.
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- adverb With
compunction .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She will become accustomed to look on me, and will remember with less bitterness the trick which I played her formerly; while I, on the other hand, by a similar force of habit, will get over certain awkward feelings with which I have been compunctiously visited whenever I look upon her. —
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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You come to me mechanically, compunctiously, with the dregs of your tenderness and the remnant of your life.
Embarrassments Henry James 1879
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Queen her sister had confined her, the idea suddenly flashed upon the oppressed Princess that Aunt Rachel would hardly be satisfied with the state of the kettle-holder; and coming down in an instant from air to earth, she determinately and compunctiously set to work again.
Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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She will become accustomed to look on me, and will remember with less bitterness the trick which I played her formerly; while I, on the other hand, by a similar force of habit, will get over certain awkward feelings with which I have been compunctiously visited whenever I look upon her.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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