All 3 Uses of
compunction
in
The House of Mirth
- "It was horrid of me to say that of Gerty," she said with charming compunction.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Gerty paused with sudden compunction.†
Chpt 1.14
- She must find some way out of the slough into which she had stumbled: it was not so much compunction as the dread of her morning thoughts that pressed on her the need of action.†
Chpt 1.15
Definition:
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(compunction) guilt for a misdeed; or a feeling that it would be wrong to do something