compunction

• n. 悔恨，后悔；内疚

com-, 强调。-punct, 刺，击，词源同impugn, puncture.

1. He has no compunction about relating how he killed his father.

他在讲述自己杀害父亲的过程时，没有感到丝毫的内疚。

来自柯林斯例句

2. She felt no compunction about leaving her job.

她对自己的辞职一点儿也不感到懊悔。

来自《权威词典》

3. He felt a kind of compunction.

他感到几分内疚.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. She kept me waiting without the slightest compunction.

她让我久等却没有丝毫的歉意.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. I have little compunction in doing it.

做这件事我没有什么不安.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

compunction

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."