Compunction is valid Scrabble Word

Is compunction a scrabble word?
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Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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Words with Friends YES

11 letters word
19 points in Scrabble
26 points in WWF

Definitions for COMPUNCTION in dictionary:

NOUN:

regret, remorse
a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad
A pricking; stimulation.
A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience.
a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

anxiety arising from awareness of guilt; distress of mind over an anticipated action or result

Words related to COMPUNCTION

compunctions20 compunctious20 compunctiously25

Words that contain COMPUNCTION

compunctions20

How to use COMPUNCTION in a sentence

Many who had hitherto given themselves up to their unrestrained passions and desires, and become strangers to all higher feelings, were seized with compunction.
Reaching it, some sense of compunction seemed to touch him for he looked back over his shoulder with an abrupt gesture of farewell.
He was looking steadfastly upon her, with a changed face, an expression of bitter sorrow, compunction, and tenderness.
He pushed open the door without compunction, and entered the room, prepared to behold some terrible scene.
It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.
He showed no sign of restraint, no evidence of compunction.
He saw the fierce tall woman slip through the crowd like a snake or a panther to its prey, and some compunction touched him when he thought of the prey.
But instead of producing, as might be wished, private compunction and immediate reformation, it kindled only rage and resentment.
Peter, full of compunction, suggested asking people to the house more, and she assented, rather listlessly.
I struck him down with no more compunction than if he had been some foul and venomous beast.

I often shed tears, not only of compunction, but of gratitude.
Many were the offers of marriage which she accepted in succession, abandoning one suitor after the other without any adequate reason or any feeling of compunction.
But, Kenkenes, she did not move us to compunction and pity.
Instead of compunction, she awakened admiration, instead of pity, respect.
It was the goodness of the Lord to give me such compunction even when it was not as yet accompanied with complete reformation.
It may have been compunction, but more likely it was fear.
He had no compunction about lying, and looked you right in the eye when he lied.
As the result of their talk, Clavigo decides with some compunction to abandon Marie, and, as his fortunes rise, to find a more suitable mate.
I am quite sure I would have hung Villa without any compunction at that time, if I could have gotten hold of him.
As for his brother, he would bleed his brother to the very last drop without any compunction.
I should feel no compunction in sending a young girl to this festival, though I should never think of letting her go to the fair held at Vienna on St.
This rate of profit was fixed at sixty-five per cent, but the traders had no compunction in going above it whenever they saw an opportunity which was not likely to be discovered.
Witnesses swore ahead without compunction, and jurors believed them without hesitation.
She had but little compunction over his self-sacrificing mood.
But things have gone too far now to show compunction for either of them.
A momentary compunction pricked Noel, for the man was obviously old, and, by the peculiar fashion in which he recovered his balance, he seemed to be crippled also.
The knowledge of the youth of its victims doubtless in a measure accounts for the new sense of compunction which fills the community.
It is not without some compunction of conscience that I recall two historical pilgrimages, one to Assisi, the other to Geneva.

Similar words containing MPUNC without suffix tion and without prefix co

compunctions20 compunctious20 compunctiously25

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