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n. (plural of compunction English)
Usage examples of "compunctions".
Before he had passed through the main street of the town, however, a reckless companion placed an arm in his, and led him to one of their haunts, where he drank deeper than usual, that he might get rid of the compunctions which the recent interview had occasioned.
If the locals, either the Bernardholters or those they had been fighting, were still at hand, they might feel few compunctions about finishing the job the watercrafter had started.
If death is the reward these zealots seek, then I don't need to have any compunctions about burning the guard detail to its due merits.
He had no compunctions about drafting Sh'gall and Kadith to convey him to his Hall in this extreme emergency.
It also gave her not a little satisfaction that her cousin and the artist were experiencing such sincere compunctions, and were realizing the enormity of their offence.
She made no apparent effort to avoid him, and was so cordial in her manner when they met that he had severe compunctions that he did not seek her society resolutely and press his suit.
If Yanth suspected the time crunch they were in, the Hutt would have no compunctions about using it as lev-erage to gouge a cheaper price.
If the taozin nodule let him get close enough to get off a shot, he had absolutely no compunctions about shooting his adversary in the back-assuming he didn't pass out from sheer terror once he had him in his sights.
Though Maul had no compunctions about killing anyone who stood in his or his master's way, he was not without a sense of honor.
She could feel 'the blade biting into her skin, and knew that Tony would have no compunctions about using it.
If Seward had no compunctions, Lincoln asked himself, why should he be afflicted with them?
He felt no compunctions about that, and indeed was pleased that Anna retained a certain personal shyness despite her career as crusading public pamphleteer.
Babriel said, though he hadn't been aware that too much in the way of compunctions had guided Michael's actions to date.