Compunctuous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Compunctuous is an adjective meaning Alternative spelling of compunctious.
Meaning
Alternative spelling of compunctious.
Example Sentences
Even when the deceptive mask was torn away, and the broken-hearted parent, beholding the accursed fact, that his darling son, the fancied stay of his declining age, was enlisted against him in his brother's horrible revolt, cursed them both and died, not even then did one compunctuous visiting touch his callous heart.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include guiltridden, duty-bound, encomiastical, mulctary, ineuphonious, covenous.
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