0 a slight guilty feeling about something you have done or might do:
1 a feeling of guilt or anxiety about something you have done or might do:
I would have no compunction about quitting.
That sense of compunction, however, is not sufficiently nuanced; it must be balanced by a sense of equity and fairness in the distribution of resources.
As a result, the new regime had less compunction about -outing an organisation for which it had little respect.
Yet he, too, often felt the compunction to account for his studies, as can be seen in the preface to the 1662 edition of his philosophical writings.
Similarly, when the heat of divine love dominates the penitent's soul, he is conceived in the right, masculine side and acquires the virile spirit of compunction.
The digestive process in the liver is equated with the compunction of the perfecti, which is secondary, coming after penitence, and is directed at venial sins.
Farm families were described as independent and reluctant to seek help, and contrasted with urban families who were seen as having no compunction about accessing support.
I have no hesitation or compunction in recognising that openly—long may it continue.
The employer will have no compunction in suing for damages if the union fails to stick to its word.
