Compunctious
Compunctious tanım:
Kelime: com·punc·tion
Söyleniş: k&m-'p&[ng](k)-sh&n
İşlev: noun
Kökeni: Middle English compunccioun, from Middle French componction, from Late Latin compunction-, compunctio, from Latin compungere to prick hard, sting, from com- pungere to prick -- more at PUNGENT
1 a : anxiety arising from awareness of guilt compunctions of conscience b : distress of mind over an anticipated action or result showed no compunction in planning devilish engines of... destruction -- Havelock Ellis
2 : a twinge of misgiving : SCRUPLE cheated without compunction
synonym see PENITENCE, QUALM
- com·punc·tious
/-sh&s/ adjective