Synonyms for compunction
kəmˈpʌŋk ʃəncom·punc·tion

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1. compunctionnoun

   Synonyms:
   qualm, remorse, regret

2. compunctionnoun

   A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.

   Synonyms:
   remorse, qualm, regret

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1. compunction

   Regret is sorrow for any painful or annoying matter. One is moved with penitence for wrong-doing. To speak of regret for a fault of our own marks it as slighter than one regarding which we should express penitence. Repentance is sorrow for sin with self-condemnation, and complete turning from the sin. Penitence is transient, and may involve no change of character or conduct. There may be sorrow without repentance, as for consequences only, but not repentance without sorrow. Compunction is a momentary sting of conscience, in view either of a past or of a contemplated act. Contrition is a subduing sorrow for sin, as against the divine holiness and love. Remorse is, as its derivation indicates, a biting or gnawing back of guilt upon the heart, with no turning of heart from the sin, and no suggestion of divine forgiveness.

   Synonyms:
   contriteness, contrition, penitence, regret, remorse, repentance, self-condemnation, sorrow

   Antonyms:
   approval, comfort, complacency, content, hardness, impenitence, obduracy, obstinacy, self-approval, self-complacency, self-congratulation, stubbornness

   Preposition:
   Repentance of or in heart, or from the heart; repentance for sins; before or toward God; unto life.

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1. compunction

   Synonyms:
   contrition, penitence, misgiving, remorse, regret, sorrow

   Antonyms:
   satisfaction, self-complacency, assurance

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1. compunction, remorse, self-reproachnoun

   a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

   Synonyms:
   self-reproof, self-reproach, remorse

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1. • Sorrow

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1. compunctionnoun

   Synonyms:
   repentance, remorse, contrition, penitence, sorrow, regret, reproach of conscience, sting of conscience

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1. compunctionnoun

   Synonyms:
   qualm, contrition, remorse, regret, sting of conscience

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1. List of paraphrases for "compunction":

   remorse, scruple

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1. Steve Fitzgerald:

   Ask the blacks about slavery. Ask the American Indians, ask -- well, of course, American Indians were doing it to each other. The whites were doing it to each other. But if you go all back in history, we have never had much compunction about killing each other, especially if you couldn't fight back.

2. Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov:

   The cynicism of the Turkish leadership knows no limits. Look what they're doing. They went into someone else's country, they are robbing it without compunction.