What is another word for compunction?

Pronunciation: [kəmpˈʌŋkʃən] (IPA)

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What are the opposite words for compunction?

The word "compunction" is defined as a feeling of guilt or unease about doing something wrong. Its antonyms, or opposite meanings, would be related to feelings of assurance and confidence. These antonyms could include words such as confidence, poise, and certainty. Other antonyms for "compunction" might include satisfaction, contentment, and happiness. These words represent feelings that are in stark contrast to the discomfort and unease that come with a sense of guilt or wrongdoing. While "compunction" is a relatively specific term, its antonyms make up a broad category of emotions and feelings that signify security and contentment.

Usage examples for Compunction

She was glad of this, and felt a slight compunction over the fact that she had seldom thought of him of late.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
In the meanwhile a pleasant warmth was creeping through her wearied body and she began to wonder with a sense of compunction how many blankets Thorne possessed, and where he was.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
On the whole, she was displeased with things in general and inclined to regret that she had driven into the settlement, which she had done in a fit of compunction.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss

Famous quotes with Compunction

  • The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
    George Eliot
  • Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.
    Frank Pittman
  • She saw that in all wars, the first stage was to dehumanize the enemy, reduce the enemy to a lower level so that he might be killed without compunction. When the enemy was not human to begin with, the task was easier.
    Greg Bear
  • The great difficulty in forming legitimate governments is in persuading those forming the governments that those who are to be their fellow citizens are equal to them in the rights, which their common government is to protect. Catholics and Protestants in sixteenth-century Europe looked upon each other as less than human, and slaughtered each other without pity and without compunction. It was impossible for there to be a common citizenship of those who did not look upon each other as possessing the same right of conscience. How one ought to worship God cannot be settled by majority rule. A majority of one faith cannot ask a minority of another faith to submit their differences to a vote. George Washington, in 1793, said that our governments were not formed in the gloomy ages of ignorance and superstition, but at a time when the rights of man were better understood than in any previous age. Washington was right, in that such rights were, in the latter part of the eighteenth century, in America, better understood. But they were not perfectly understood, as the continued existence of chattel slavery attests. A difference concerning the equal rights of persons of color made the continued existence of a common government of all Americans impossible. A great civil war had to be fought, ending the existence of slavery, reuniting the nation and rededicating it to the proposition that all men are created equal.
    Harry V. Jaffa
  • “I feel no moral compunction in the slightest at my so-called crime. If a man cannot retain control of his own body, then he deserves to lose it. I have observed, during a long and varied lifetime, that men will give their bodies to any rogue who asks, and will enslave their minds to the first voice that commands them to obey. This is why the vast majority of men cannot keep even their natural birthright of a mind and body, but choose instead to rid themselves of those embarrassing emblems of freedom.” “That,” Detective Urdorf said, “is the classic of the criminal.” “That which you call a crime when one man does it,” Kraggash said, “you call government when many men do it. Personally, I fail to see the distinction; and failing to see it, I refuse to live by it.”
    Robert Sheckley

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