Word Meanings - COMPUNCTIONLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Without compunction.
Related words: (words related to COMPUNCTIONLESS)
- WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer. - WITHOUT
1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our - COMPUNCTION
compunctio, fr. compungere, compunctum, to prick; com- + pungere to 1. A pricking; stimulation. That acid piecering spirit which, with such activity and compunction, invadeth the brains and nostrils. Sir T. Browne. 2. A picking of heart; poignant - COMPUNCTIONLESS
Without compunction.