Usually means: Feeling regret or moral scruple.
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  1. compunctive: Wordnik
  2. compunctive: Wiktionary
  3. Compunctive: Dictionary.com
  4. Compunctive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. compunctive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Compunctive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. compunctive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. compunctive: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Compunctive: TheFreeDictionary.com

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adjective:  (obsolete) Sensitive with regard to wrongdoing; conscientious; compunctious.

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