A Life Without Compunction

Compunction

The definition of compunction is:

1 a : anxiety arising from awareness of guilt <compunctions of conscience> b : distress of mind over an anticipated action or result <showed no compunction in planning devilish engines of…destruction — Havelock Ellis>
2 : a twinge of misgiving : scruple <cheated without compunction>

from Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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