Both Uses of
compunction
in
Wuthering Heights
- Mr. Linton stood looking at her in sudden compunction and fear.†
Chpt 11 *
- Not so my companion: she ran back in terror, knelt down, and cried, and soothed, and entreated, till he grew quiet from lack of breath: by no means from compunction at distressing her.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(compunction) guilt for a misdeed; or a feeling that it would be wrong to do something