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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
COMPUNCTIOUS, a. Pricking the conscience; giving pain for offenses committed.
Let no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose.
Merriam Webster's
adjective see compunction
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Compunctious Com*punc"tious, a. Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. --Shak.
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
a. Repentant, penitent, contrite, remorseful, sorrowful, conscience-stinging, conscience-stung.
