[U] (also [C] in AmE) ~ (about doing sth) (formal) a feeling of guilt about doing sth:
She felt no compunction about leaving her job. * He had lied to her without compunction. * (AmE) She has no compunctions about rejecting the plan.
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Is compunction a noun, verb, or something else?
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