Meaning of compunctuous | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of compunctious.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“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.”

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