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Substantiivit
- (obsolete) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
- (obsolete) Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
- Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.
- (obsolete) A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
- A measurement of time. Hebrew culture broke the hour into 1080 scruples.
Verbit
- (intransitive) 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.
- (obsolete) To doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc.).
- To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
Esimerkit
- Paroles: I have not, my lord, deserved it. Lafeu: Yes, good faith, ev'ry dram of it, and I will not bate thee a scruple.
- He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples. - Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may. - Thomas Fuller.
- Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship. - Robert South.
- Others long before them ... scrupled more the books of hereties than of gentiles. - John Milton.
- I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.
- Letters which did still scruple many of them. -E. Symmons.
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