compunctious

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Adjective

compunctious

1. Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.
   • 1606, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5.

     Come, you spirits

     That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here;

     And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full

     Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood,

     Stop up the access and passage to remorse,

     That no compunctious visitings of nature

     Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between

     The effect and it!

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