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Meaning of "compunctious" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMPUNCTIOUS

compunctious  [kəmˈpʌŋkʃəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPUNCTIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Compunctious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COMPUNCTIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

compunctious

Remorse

Remorse is an emotional expression of personal regret felt by a person after they have committed an act which they deem to be shameful, hurtful, or violent. Remorse is closely allied to guilt and self-directed resentment. When a person regrets an earlier action or failure to act, it may be because of remorse or in response to various other consequences, including being punished for the act or omission. In a legal context, the perceived remorse of an offender is assessed by Western justice systems during trials, sentencing, parole hearings, and in restorative justice. However, it has been pointed out that epistemological problems arise in assessing an offender's level of remorse. A person who is incapable of feeling remorse is often labelled with antisocial personality disorder - as characterized in the DSM IV-TR. In general, a person needs to be unable to feel fear, as well as remorse, in order to develop psychopathic traits. Legal and business professions such as insurance have done research on the expression of remorse via apologies, primarily because of the potential litigation and financial implications.

Definition of compunctious in the English dictionary

The definition of compunctious in the dictionary is accompanied or motivated by compunction.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMPUNCTIOUS


anxious
ˈæŋkʃəs
contradictious
ˌkɒntrəˈdɪkʃəs
factious
ˈfækʃəs
fractious
ˈfrækʃəs
infectious
ɪnˈfɛkʃəs
innoxious
ɪˈnɒkʃəs
noninfectious
ˌnɒnɪnˈfekʃəs
noxious
ˈnɒkʃəs
obnoxious
əbˈnɒkʃəs
overanxious
ˌəʊvərˈæŋkʃəs
rambunctious
ræmˈbʌŋkʃəs
ructious
ˈrʌkʃəs
rumbunctious
rʌmˈbʌŋkʃəs
unanxious
ʌnˈæŋkʃəs
unobnoxious
ʌnəbˈnɒkʃəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPUNCTIOUS

compulsitor
compulsive
compulsively
compulsiveness
compulsivity
compulsorily
compulsory
compulsory liquidation
compulsory purchase
compunction
compunctiously
compurgation
compurgator
compurgatorial
compurgatory
compursion
computability
computable
computant
computation

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPUNCTIOUS

ambitious
captious
cautious
conscientious
contentious
expeditious
facetious
factitious
fictitious
flirtatious
nutritious
ostentatious
pretentious
previous
scrumptious
superstitious
tendentious
tortious
unambitious
unpretentious
vexatious

Synonyms and antonyms of compunctious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «compunctious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPUNCTIOUS

Find out the translation of compunctious to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of compunctious from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «compunctious» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

内疚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

compungido
570 millions of speakers

English

compunctious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

compunctious
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

compunctious
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

compunctious
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

compunctious
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনুতপ্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

componction
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Compunctious
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

compunctious
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

compunctious
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

compunctious
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Compunctious
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hối hận
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மனச்சான்றின் உறுத்தல் உடைய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जुळणारे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

compunctious
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

compunto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

compunctious
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

compunctious
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mustrare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

compunctious
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

berouwvol
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

compunctious
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

compunctious
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of compunctious

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPUNCTIOUS»

The term «compunctious» is used very little and occupies the 170.336 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPUNCTIOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «compunctious» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «compunctious» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about compunctious

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPUNCTIOUS»

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1
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ...
... Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my Cell purpose, nor keep peace hetween The effect, and it !2 Come to my woman's hreasts, 1 — — remorse;] Remorse, in ancient language, signifies pity.
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, 1806
2
The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and ...
That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect, and it !2 Come to my woman's breasts, i remorse;] Remorse, in ancient language, signifies pity. So, in King Lear : " Thrill'd with remorse, ...
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, 1806
3
Figuring the Feminine: The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in ...
23 Pagis, Secular Poetry and Poetic Theory, 41; and Brann, Compunctious Poet, 72. 24 Fenton, Philosophie et exégèse dans 'Lejardin de la métaphore' de Moïse Ibn 'Ezra, philosophe etpoète andalou du XIIe siècle,' 302. 25 Pagis, Secular ...
Jill Ross, 2008
4
Shakespeare Reread: The Texts in New Contexts
The six syllables of "compunctious" and "visitings" in line 43 sum up, and are an emblem for, all that I have so far said, both in general about the activities of inert meanings and about the incidental pattern in sounds and senses in the soliloquy  ...
Russ McDonald, 1994
5
The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic ...
22. Bonebakker, “Adab and the Concept of Belles-Lettres,” p. 24. Also, see Franz Rosenthal, Knowledge Triumphant, pp. 12–18, 35–40. 23. Kraemer, Humanism and the Renaissance of Islam, pp. 1–30. 24. Brann, The Compunctious Poet, pp.
Aaron W. Hughes, 2003
6
Macbeth
Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull 40 Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood, Stop up th' access and passage to remorse That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my ...
William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller, 2008
7
Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine
COMPUNCTIOUS. VISITINGS. CONSCIENCE. OF. On an instructive page of ancient history, we read of a certain king who took to himself his brother's wife, while that brother yet lived, divorcing his own wife, without ...
8
The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our ...
uneasy or scrupulous about the fitness or propriety of an act or a thing: feeling guilt or remorse The day, a compunctious Sunday after a week of riots and blizzards, had been part jewel, part mud. concatenation the outcome of concatenating, ...
Karen Elizabeth Gordon, 2003
9
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Macbeth
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full 40 Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between 41. dirert] direct ...
William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, 1873
10
Recent Events in the East: Being a Reprint of Mr. Urquhart's ...
COMPUNCTIOUS THIMBLERIGGING. September 22d. Trembling with indignation and burning with disgust, we have perused, on opening the pale sheet of the false witness, of yesterday morning, the following leader thus printed and worded ...
David Urquhart, 1854

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPUNCTIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term compunctious is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Unpaid Wages: Brutalizing The Poor In Osun State By Remi Oyeyemi
I am beginning to feel compunctious and distressed by the sheer heartlessness that is presently persisting in the state. It is like the State of ... «SaharaReporters.com, Jun 15»
2
Should you be wary of writers you know? You might just be …
Others have been less compunctious – Pat Conroy's novel The Great Santini was such a thinly-veiled portrayal of his tyrannical military father ... «New Statesman, Feb 15»
3
Film Regrets 2014
Local Cineastes Wax Compunctious. Regrets that people still have to take to the streets to demand basic civil rights and survival wages. «TheStranger.com, Dec 14»
4
'Communicating Doors' comes to campus
Jeremiah Plessinger, who plays a compunctious business tycoon named Reece, believes there is a perfect balance between character and ... «Miami Student, Nov 14»
5
Theater Review: It Were Done Quickly, This Macbeth
No sooner has Cumming's compunctious Macbeth heard the witches' prophecy than he transforms into his own grasping wife with the addition ... «Vulture, Apr 13»
6
Algorithm, Argument and Promiscuity
This may lead to swifter and less compunctious resort to peremptory punishment (like the death penalty) for what might, in the rule-of-reason ... «Globla Brief, Mar 13»
7
Toronto mayor Rob Ford gets to keep his job
"This has been a very, very humbling experience," the rarely compunctious mayor told a news conference following the ruling, saying he plans ... «Reuters, Jan 13»
8
Shooting sprees start with women
Stop up the access and passages to remorse/that no compunctious visitings of nature/shake [her] fell purpose.” Our vicious lady isn't praying for ... «Salon, Jan 13»
9
Corruption and Theories of Kingship in Macbeth
That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose” (1.5.39-44). She calls upon these spirits to take away all her feminine qualities, and therefore ... «Student Pulse, Feb 10»
10
The book that influenced all others
I am anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious if anyone has had pericombubulations to read his work. Robbie, Blantyre. I blame Dr Johnson ... «BBC News, Sep 09»

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