The Only Use of
compunction
in
Macbeth
- Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purposep. 33.6compunctious = from feelings of conscience (the feeling that it would be wrong to do something)editor's notes: This could be paraphrased as: "Block the pathway to guilt and natural feelings that might threaten my cruel plan."
Definition:
guilt for a misdeed; or a feeling that it would be wrong to do something