All 3 Uses of
compunction
in
Ivanhoe
- He told every rivet on my armour with a cloth-yard shaft, that rapped against my ribs with as little compunction as if my bones had been of iron—But that I wore a shirt of Spanish mail under my plate-coat, I had been fairly sped.†
Chpt 30 *
- "He goes to make my brother prisoner," said Prince John to De Bracy, "with as little touch of compunction, as if it but concerned the liberty of a Saxon franklin.†
Chpt 34
- Why, then they have some compunction, and are for making up matters with Heaven.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(compunction) guilt for a misdeed; or a feeling that it would be wrong to do something