Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Feeling compunction; conscience-stricken.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete Affected with compunction; remorseful.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken.
Etymologies
- Latin compunctus, past participle. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And then this cruel king commanded that he should be chased away, but the knights that came for to chase him were so converted by his words that, they were compunct, and promised to be his disciples.”
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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Specific
philtrum, subitize, agelast, abderian, tyro, zenocratically, logorrhea, aceldama, micawber, foyer, hircine, losel and 95 more...
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hernesheir "As for feelings of guilt, well, she's about as compunct as a cowbird who lays her eggs in anothers' nest."
Sep 10, 2012