Both Uses of
compunction
in
Adam Bede
- The words of scorn, the refusal to shake hands, the mastery asserted over him in their last conversation in the Hermitage—above all, the sense of having been knocked down, to which a man does not very well reconcile himself, even under the most heroic circumstances—pressed on him with a galling pain which was stronger than compunction.†
Chpt 29compunction = guilt for a misdeed; or a feeling that it would be wrong to do something
- Struggles and resolves had transformed themselves into compunction and anxiety.†
Chpt 29 *