compunction: [14] Etymologically, to do something ‘without compunction’ means literally to do it without one’s conscience pricking. The word comes via Old French componction from late Latin compunctiō, a derivative of compungere ‘prick hard’, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- and pungere ‘prick’ (source of English puncture and pungent). => puncture, pungent
compunction (n.)
mid-14c., from Old French compunction (12c., Modern French componction), from Late Latin compunctionem (nominative compunctio) "remorse; a pricking" (of conscience), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin compungere "to severely prick, sting," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + pungere "to prick" (see pungent). Used in figurative sense by early Church writers. Originally a much more intense feeling, similar to "remorse," or "contrition."
雙語例句
1. He has no compunction about relating how he killed his father.
他在講述自己殺害父親的過程時，沒有感到絲毫的內疚。
來自柯林斯例句
2. She felt no compunction about leaving her job.
她對自己的辭職一點兒也不感到懊悔。
來自《權威詞典》
3. He felt a kind of compunction.
他感到幾分內疚.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. She kept me waiting without the slightest compunction.