conscience-smitten


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Adj.1.conscience-smitten - affected by conscience
guilty - responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds"
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Tom had been restless and full of chafings and repinings; conscience-smitten, too -- he could not meet Amy Lawrence's eye, he could not brook her loving gaze.
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It made itself visible in the right quarter, and compelled the guilty and the conscience-smitten, and none others, to start, "Pr'ythee, see there!--look!
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