"compunctuous" meaning in English

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      "form": "more compunctuous",
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    {
      "form": "most compunctuous",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1831, Peter Leicester, Arthur of Britanny, page 18",
          "text": "Even when the deceptive mask was torn away, and the broken-hearted parent, beholding the accursed fact, that his darling son, the fancied stay of his declining age, was enlisted against him in his brother's horrible revolt, cursed them both and died, not even then did one compunctuous visiting touch his callous heart.",
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  "word": "compunctuous"
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    {
      "form": "more compunctuous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most compunctuous",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "compunctious"
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          "text": "Even when the deceptive mask was torn away, and the broken-hearted parent, beholding the accursed fact, that his darling son, the fancied stay of his declining age, was enlisted against him in his brother's horrible revolt, cursed them both and died, not even then did one compunctuous visiting touch his callous heart.",
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