Both Uses of
compunction
in
David Copperfield
- I had little doubt then, and I have less doubt now, that he would have knocked me down without the least compunction, if I had hesitated.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- So much compunction for having ever wronged him, even by a shapeless thought, did I feel within me, that the confession of having done so was rising to my lips.†
Chpt 28-30
Definition:
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(compunction) guilt for a misdeed; or a feeling that it would be wrong to do something