compunctious

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.
    — Come you Spirits, That tend on mortall thoughts, vnſex me here, And fill me from the Crowne to the Toe, top-full Of direſt Crueltie: make thick my blood, Stop vp th’acceſſe, and paſſage to Remorſe, That no compunctious viſitings of Nature Shake my fell purpoſe, nor keepe peace betweene Th’effect, and hit.

词形变化

more compunctious comparative most compunctious superlative compunctuous alternative

词源

From the stem of compunction + -ous; compare factious. Apparently taken up in modern use from Macbeth by William Shakespeare (see quotation).
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