Definition of Compunctious

1. a. Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction.

Definition of Compunctious

1. Adjective. Pertaining to compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Compunctious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compunctious

compulsively
compulsiveness
compulsives
compulsivities
compulsivity
compulsories
compulsorily
compulsoriness
compulsory
compulsory process
compulsory purchase
compunct
compunction
compunctionless
compunctions
compunctious (current term)
compunctiously
compunctive
compunctuous
compurgation
compurgations
compurgator
compurgatorial
compurgators
computabilities
computability
computability logic
computability theory
computable
computable function

Literary usage of Compunctious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1851)
"... and looked so out of place in their bare wooden cages, that day by duy compunctious visitings ..."

2. The Great Cities of the Middle Ages; Or, The Landmarks of European by Theodore Alois Buckley (1853)
"... has effectually stifled any feelings of compunctious regard towards old building's. Its position, always conspicuous in the history of latter times, ..."

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