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{"id": "compunction", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "compunction", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "compunctionless", "text": "compunctionless"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["Middle English: from Old French componction, from ecclesiastical Latin compunctio(n-), from Latin compungere \u2018prick sharply\u2019, from com- (expressing intensive force) + pungere \u2018to prick\u2019"], "notes": [{"text": "mass noun, usually with negative", "type": "grammaticalNote"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/compunction_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "k\u0259m\u02c8p\u028c\u014bk\u0283(\u0259)n"}], "senses": [{"constructions": [{"text": "without compunction"}], "definitions": ["a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad"], "examples": [{"text": "they used their tanks without compunction"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0207260.005", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "feeling", "text": "Feeling"}], "shortDefinitions": ["feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows doing of something bad"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "scruples"}, {"language": "en", "text": "misgivings"}, {"language": "en", "text": "qualms"}, {"language": "en", "text": "worries"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unease"}, {"language": "en", "text": "uneasiness"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hesitation"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hesitancy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "doubts"}, {"language": "en", "text": "reluctance"}, {"language": "en", "text": "reservations"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "compunction", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0002704.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "noun", "text": "Noun"}, "text": "compunction"}], "type": "headword", "word": "compunction"}], "word": "compunction"}
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