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noun 
  1. a pricking of conscience, a slight regret
    He pulled the trigger without compunction.
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, derived from Late Latin, compunctionem (a pricking), from Latin compunctus, the past participle of compungere (to severely prick), from com- + pungere (to prick).


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