单词 | compunction |
释义 | compunctionn. 1. a. Pricking or stinging of the conscience or heart; regret or uneasiness of mind consequent on sin or wrongdoing; remorse, contrition. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] reusingeOE rueeOE ruenessOE bireusingc1000 penitencea1200 rutha1200 after-charc1220 again-charc1220 ruesomenessa1225 ofthinkingc1225 forthinkinga1250 repentancec1300 penancea1325 pityc1330 compunctiona1340 agenbite1340 repentingc1350 athinking1382 contritionc1386 repentaillec1390 rueinga1400 remorse of conscience (also mind)c1410 conscience?a1425 remorsea1425 penitencya1500 penitudea1538 resipiscency?c1550 penancy?1567 resipiscence1570 repent1573 brokennessa1617 remorsefulnessa1617 synteresy1616 synderesis1639 heart-searching1647 synteresis1650 remordency1658 contriteness1692 resentment1705 penitentness1727 society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penitence > [noun] reusingeOE deedbotec1000 sin-bootc1175 penitencea1200 repentancec1300 penancea1325 compunctiona1340 repentingc1350 contritionc1386 repentaillec1390 remorse of conscience (also mind)c1410 penitencya1500 penitudea1538 penancy?1567 repent1573 metanoia1577 remorsefulnessa1617 synteresy1616 synderesis1639 synteresis1650 remordency1658 sermon-sicknessa1665 contriteness1692 penitentness1727 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxxi. 4 Compunccioun for my synn is festid in my hert. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (1879) xcv. 425 Thou haste not compuncion for thy synnes. 1490 Arte & Crafte to knowe well to Dye (Caxton) 17 Better it is that..he haue compunction and be saued. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. RRiiv Teares of compunction. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 102 A remorse, and compunction for former sins. 1796 W. Godwin Caleb Williams (ed. 2) I. vi. 134 Blasted with the compunctions of guilt. 1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 45 There is no sense of duty, no compunction for our own offences. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. (1855) x. 324 He has no compunctions of conscience, no remorseful remembrances. b. In modern use, often in weakened sense, denoting a slight or passing regret for wrongdoing, or a feeling of regret for some slight offence (sometimes including pity for the person wronged; cf. 1d); esp. in such phrases as without compunction. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > pity combined with remorse compunction1712 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > slight contrition compunction1712 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 448. ⁋3 I am left under the Compunction that I deserve, in so many different Places to be called a Trifler. 1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) ix. 93 It is ever with Reluctance and Compunction of Mind. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 319 With a degree of angry impatience, which soon turned into compunction, when he saw that she was almost..exhausted. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. viii. 502 They quitted it [the Reformed Communion] without compunction. 1876 W. Black Madcap Violet xix. 178 ‘Well, I don't exactly wish that’, she said, with some compunction. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > pricking or murmuring of conscience wormOE prick of conscience?c1225 bitingc1440 compunction?a1475 grudge1483 pouncea1500 grutch1509 pincha1566 remurmuration of conscience1611 twinge1622 wringing1623 twinging1816 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 143 A man Cedmon by name tauȝhte by God to make dites of compunccion [L. carmina compunctiva]. 1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 1 With his sweete verses full of compunction, he [Ceadmon] withdrew many from vice to vertue. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] rutha1200 ruenessa1225 ruefulnessc1225 birewnessa1250 pityc1300 ruea1325 compassionc1340 midtholing1340 miserationa1382 rueinga1382 bowel1382 mildc1390 tendresse1390 ruefulhead?a1400 ruthnessa1400 tendernessa1400 compunction1430 bowels of compassion1526 remorse1538 commiseration1582 kindheartedness1583 commorse1595 earning1603 tender-heartedness1607 compassionateness1614 visceraa1651 ruthfulness1674 karuna1850 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. v Whan heauen and erth with hye compunction Haue sygnes shewed of lamentation. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 6 He is the spirit of grace, compunction, and compassion. 1773 H. Chapone Lett. Improvem. Mind I. 79 The emotions of tenderness and compunction, which..every one feels in reading [the simple narrative of the evangelists]. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. vii. 58 To walk off..with the precious stones and watch cases, [without] any compunction for the people who would lose the same. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > pricking or tingling prickinga1398 tinglinga1450 punction1596 dindling1597 compunction1604 punto1617 prickling1656 sharpness1694 puncture1709 puncturation1733 pins and needles1813 tingle1832 pringling1890 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Compunction, pricking. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 93 A sharpe naile... with which they pricke the horse..Such compunctions and tortures wil euen force the best..horse, to..plunge. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xii. 335 That acide and piercing spirit which with such activity and compunction invadeth the braines and nostrills. View more context for this quotation 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Compunction a pricking or stitch; remorse of conscience. 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