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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COMPUNCTIOUS

a.Pricking the conscience; giving pain for offenses committed. Let no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

COMPUNCTIOUS

COMPUNCTIOUS Com *punc "tious, a.

 

Defn: Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction. That no compunctious vistings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Shak.

 

COMPUNCTIOUSLY

COMPUNCTIOUSLY Com *punc "tious *ly, adv.

 

Defn: With compunction.