compunction
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Noun — A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.
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Etymology
From Middle English compunccion, borrowed from Old French compunction, 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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