Compunction vs Dissemble - What's the difference?

As a noun compunction

is a pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.

to disguise or conceal something.

(en noun)

A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.

* :

[H]e would have had no compunction whatever in flinging him out of the highest window in Venice into the deepest water of the city.

* 1897 , , Dracula , ch. 3:

I felt no compunction in doing so, for under the circumstances I felt that I should protect myself in every way I could.

* 1920 , , Women in Love , ch. 8:

But he felt, later, a little compunction . He had been violent, cruel with poor Hermione. He wanted to recompense her, to make it up.

* 2003 February 16, Blaine Greteman, " No Peace Dividend," Time :

As for average U.S. consumers, they've shown little compunction about buying diamonds that fund bloody militias in Africa.

* regret, remorse, qualm * See also

(dissembl)

To disguise or conceal something.

* Shakespeare

Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.

* J. P. Kemble

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.

To feign.

* 1681 , John Dryden,

And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,

Or sleep-dissembling , while he waits his prey.

* Tatler

He soon dissembled a sleep.

To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.

To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.

* XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia''; from ''Boccace

While to his arms the blushing bride he took,

To seeming sadness she composed her look;

As if by force subjected to his will,

Though pleased, dissembling , and a woman still.