Scruple

[scru·ple]

Your scruples are what keep you from doing things you consider to be morally or ethically wrong. Your scruples won't allow you to cheat on a test, or steal from your brother's Halloween candy stash.

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A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

Noun
an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action

Noun
uneasiness about the fitness of an action

Noun
a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains

Verb
have doubts about

Verb
raise scruples; "He lied and did not even scruple about it"

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Verb
hesitate on moral grounds; "The man scrupled to perjure himself"

n.
A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

n.
Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.

n.
Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.

v. i.
To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.

v. t.
To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.

v. t.
To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

Scruple

Scru"ple , n. [L. scrupulus a small sharp or pointed stone, the twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to Gr. the chippings of stone, a razor, Skr. kshura: cf. F. scrupule.] 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.

I will not bate thee a scruple.

3. Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.

He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples.

To make scruple, to hesitate from conscientious motives; to scruple.

Scruple

Scru"ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scrupled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Skrupling .] To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.

We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may.

Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship.

Scruple

Scru"ple, v. t. 1. To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.

Others long before them . . . scrupled more the books of hereties than of gentiles.

2. To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple. [R.]

Letters which did still scruple many of them.

A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.

To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.

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