society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > be repentant or contrite [verb (intransitive)] > of conscience: to prick or murmur (2)
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intransitive. To perform or be able to perform the action of pricking or piercing; to cause a pricking sensation; to be prickly or sharp. Also figur…