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Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken. [Obs.]

A pricking; stimulation. [Obs.] That acid piecering spirit which, with such activity and compunction, invadeth the brains and nostrils. Sir T. Browne.

Without compunction.

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

With compunction.

Sensitive in respect of wrongdoing; conscientious. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

Feeling no compunction; apathetic. [R.] Hallywell.

cution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it. Shak.

To feel compunction or grief. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

sted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.

A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction. Dryden.

Remorse; compunction; compassion. [Obs.] Killingbeck.

The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life. "Nero will be tainted with remorse." Shak.