All 3 Uses of
compunction
in
The Age of Innocence
- Mother and daughter adored each other and revered their son and brother; and Archer loved them with a tenderness made compunctious and uncritical by the sense of their exaggerated admiration, and by his secret satisfaction in it.†
Chpt 5
- But they were generally accompanied by a sense of compunction and self-abasement of which Newland Archer felt no trace.†
Chpt 6 *
- Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(compunction) guilt for a misdeed; or a feeling that it would be wrong to do something