"compunctious" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more compunctious",
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    {
      "form": "most compunctious",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1606, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5",
          "text": "Come, you spirits\nThat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here;\nAnd fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full\nOf direst cruelty! make thick my blood,\nStop up the access and passage to remorse,\nThat no compunctious visitings of nature\nShake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between\nThe effect and it!",
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        {
          "ref": "1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter to a Noble Lord",
          "text": "Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thoroughbred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the principle of evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil. It is no easy operation to eradicate humanity from the human breast. What Shakspeare calls “the compunctious visitings of nature” will sometimes knock at their hearts, and protest against their murderous speculations. But they have a means of compounding with their nature. Their humanity is not dissolved. They only give it a long prorogation.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt."
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      "id": "en-compunctious-en-adj-42L~Dd00",
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          "compunction",
          "compunction"
        ],
        [
          "scruple",
          "scruple"
        ],
        [
          "guilt",
          "guilt"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "compunctuous"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "compunctious"
}

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    {
      "form": "more compunctious",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most compunctious",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1606, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5",
          "text": "Come, you spirits\nThat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here;\nAnd fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full\nOf direst cruelty! make thick my blood,\nStop up the access and passage to remorse,\nThat no compunctious visitings of nature\nShake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between\nThe effect and it!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter to a Noble Lord",
          "text": "Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thoroughbred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the principle of evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil. It is no easy operation to eradicate humanity from the human breast. What Shakspeare calls “the compunctious visitings of nature” will sometimes knock at their hearts, and protest against their murderous speculations. But they have a means of compounding with their nature. Their humanity is not dissolved. They only give it a long prorogation.",
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        "Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt."
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          "compunction",
          "compunction"
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          "scruple",
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          "guilt",
          "guilt"
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    {
      "word": "compunctuous"
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  "word": "compunctious"
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