Both Uses of
compunction
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Cary
- This lasted for two years till, many being struck with compunction at the dissolute life they led, his sect was much diminished; and through failure of food, and the severity of the snows, he was taken by the people of Novarra, and burnt, with Margarita his companion and many other men and women whom his errors had seduced.†
Canto 1.N. *
- Compunction," I rejoin'd.†
Canto 2.12-22
Definition:
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(compunction) guilt for a misdeed; or a feeling that it would be wrong to do something