The Only Use of
compunction
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Here again: Mr. Lorry's inquiries into Miss Pross's personal history had established the fact that her brother Solomon was a heartless scoundrel who had stripped her of everything she possessed, as a stake to speculate with, and had abandoned her in her poverty for evermore, with no touch of compunction.†
Chpt 2.6compunction = guilt for a misdeed; or a feeling that it would be wrong to do something