figurative. A grief or passion that preys stealthily on a man's heart or torments his conscience (like a worm in a dead body or a maggot in food)…
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| 释义 | society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > pricking or murmuring of conscience (13) wormOE figurative. A grief or passion that preys stealthily on a man's heart or torments his conscience (like a worm in a dead body or a maggot in food)… prick of conscience?c1225 The action or an act of pricking; the fact, experience, or pain of being pricked; a puncture. Also figurative, esp. in prick of conscience… bitingc1440 The action of bite, v. in its various senses. compunction?a1475 In active sense: The faculty of pricking the conscience, or producing conviction of sin. grudge1483 ‘Murmuring’ of the conscience; uneasiness or disturbance of mind; scruple, doubt, misgiving. Also, an instance of this. Obsolete. pouncea1500 A prick, a sting. Obsolete. rare. grutch1509 = grudge, n. 2. pincha1566 Emotional pain, esp. as caused by remorse, conscience, or sorrow; an instance of this, a pang. Now frequently a pinch of conscience. remurmuration of conscience1611 a quiet, insistent feeling of guilt. twinge1622 figurative. A sharp mental pain; a pang of shame, remorse, sorrow, or the like; a prick of conscience; in quot. 1745, a stimulating prick. wringing1623 The action or fact of feeling remorse, apprehension, or mistrust; an instance of this. Obsolete. twinging1816 Subcategories:— cause of (1) |
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