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单词 compunction
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compunctionn.

/kəmˈpʌŋkʃən/
Forms: Also Middle English compungcion, compuncion, compunccoun, compunctioun, Middle English compunccioun, Middle English–1500s compunccion(e, -ccyon(e, Middle English compunxione, compounctyon, 1500s compuncyon, compunctyon.
Etymology: < Old French compunctiun, -on (12th cent. in Littré, modern French componction), < Latin compunctiōn-em (in Christian writers) sting of conscience, remorse, noun of action < compungĕre.
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.
c. In active sense: The faculty of pricking the conscience, or producing conviction of sin.
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.
d. A feeling of sorrow for the suffering of another; pity, compassion. Obsolete except as in 1b.
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.
2. In physical sense: The action of pricking, or of producing a pricking sensation. Obsolete. rare.
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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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