WORD OF THE DAY: compunction

Posted on October 25, 2016 ·
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\kuh m-PUHNGK-shuh n\
noun
1. a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse.
2. any uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action.
Quotes
It might be supposed that he would feel some compunction at robbing his stepmother of her all. Whatever her faults, she was devoted to him. But Willis Ford had a hard, selfish nature, and the only thought that troubled him was the fear that he might be found out.
— Horatio Alger Jr., Helping Himself, 1886
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