Compunctious

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Compunctious \Com*punc"tious\, a.
     Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended
     with, or causing, compunction.
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           That no compunctious visitings of nature


           Shake my fell purpose.                   --Shak.
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