Compunction Sentence Examples

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  • He didn't doubt that if it were to her advantage to do so, she'd have no compunction in involving him, however unfairly.

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  • Many fans have no compunction about spending a small fortune to get their costume right.

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  • I really have a compunction or two about helping to put your brother into drama.

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  • However there is little compunction on developed countries to follow the same advice.

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  • I struck him down with no more compunction than if he had been some foul and venomous beast.

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  • Hence, there is no copyright infringement and consumers should not suffer any compunction when purchasing these inspired handbags.

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  • Some fighting Catholics haunted woods and hills under the name of tories, afterwards given in derision to a great party, and were hunted down with as little compunction as the wolves to which they were compared.

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  • A South Armagh man from a strongly republican village, Aiken showed " no compunction about shooting unarmed Protestants ".

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  • Today's Pentagon shows no such compunction to put a rein on Graham.

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  • A South Armagh man from a strongly republican village, Aiken showed " no compunction about shooting unarmed Protestants " .

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  • Yet why should I feel any compunction about my family, I might well ask.

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  • The very inconsistency with which Villehardouin is chargeable, the absence of compunction with which he relates the changing of a sacred religious pilgrimage into something by no means unlike a mere filibustering raid on the great scale, add a charm to the book.

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  • At the dissolution he surrendered his priory without compunction to the crown, and received a liberal pension.

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  • He wrote a chronicle of the monastery and several biographies - the life of Gerhard Groot, of Florentius Radewyn, of a Flemish lady St Louise, of Groot's original disciples; a number of tracts on the monastic life - The Monk's Alphabet, The Discipline of Cloisters, A Dialogue of Novices, The Life of the Good Monk, The Monk's Epitaph, Sermons to Novices, Sermons to Monks, The Solitary Life, On Silence, On Poverty, Humility and Patience; two tracts for young people - A Manual of Doctrine for the Young, and A Manual for Children; and books for edification - On True Compunction, The Garden of Roses, The Valley of Lilies, The Consolation of the Poor and the Sick, The Faithful Dispenser, The Soul's Soliloquy, The Hospital of the Poor.

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