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pang of conscience

noun

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  1. A feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets.

    • It was clear to Mr. Seely that Dick Shand's story was 'got up,'—and very well got up. He had no pang of conscience as to using it. But when it came to believing it, that was quite another thing.
    • So it fell that Mistress Anne could go to London without pangs of conscience at leaving her sister in the country and alone.

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