noun
Examples of compunction in a Sentence
He didn't doubt that if it were to her advantage to do so, she'd have no compunction in involving him, however unfairly.
Many fans have no compunction about spending a small fortune to get their costume right.
I really have a compunction or two about helping to put your brother into drama.
However there is little compunction on developed countries to follow the same advice.
I struck him down with no more compunction than if he had been some foul and venomous beast.
Hence, there is no copyright infringement and consumers should not suffer any compunction when purchasing these inspired handbags.
Some fighting Catholics haunted woods and hills under the name of tories, afterwards given in derision to a great party, and were hunted down with as little compunction as the wolves to which they were compared.
A South Armagh man from a strongly republican village, Aiken showed " no compunction about shooting unarmed Protestants ".
Today's Pentagon shows no such compunction to put a rein on Graham.
A South Armagh man from a strongly republican village, Aiken showed " no compunction about shooting unarmed Protestants " .
Yet why should I feel any compunction about my family, I might well ask.
The very inconsistency with which Villehardouin is chargeable, the absence of compunction with which he relates the changing of a sacred religious pilgrimage into something by no means unlike a mere filibustering raid on the great scale, add a charm to the book.
At the dissolution he surrendered his priory without compunction to the crown, and received a liberal pension.
He wrote a chronicle of the monastery and several biographies - the life of Gerhard Groot, of Florentius Radewyn, of a Flemish lady St Louise, of Groot's original disciples; a number of tracts on the monastic life - The Monk's Alphabet, The Discipline of Cloisters, A Dialogue of Novices, The Life of the Good Monk, The Monk's Epitaph, Sermons to Novices, Sermons to Monks, The Solitary Life, On Silence, On Poverty, Humility and Patience; two tracts for young people - A Manual of Doctrine for the Young, and A Manual for Children; and books for edification - On True Compunction, The Garden of Roses, The Valley of Lilies, The Consolation of the Poor and the Sick, The Faithful Dispenser, The Soul's Soliloquy, The Hospital of the Poor.