Noun

(en noun)

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

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[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.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of humiliating]] or [[humble#Verb, humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

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    One morning Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln were having breakfast when Lincoln did something that aroused the fiery temper of his wife. What, no one remembers now. But Mrs. Lincoln, in a rage, dashed a cup of hot coffee into her husband's face. And she did it in front of the other boarders.
    Saying nothing, Lincoln sat there in humiliation and silence while Mrs. Early came with a wet towel and wiped off his face and clothes.