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Definition scruple
Etymology
From Old French scrupule, from Latin scr?pulus (“(literally) a small sharp or pointed stone; the twenty-fourth part of an ounce; uneasiness of mind, anxiety, doubt, trouble; scruple”), diminutive of scr?pus (“a rough or sharp stone; anxiety, uneasiness”); perhaps akin to Ancient Greek ?????? (skúros, “the chippings of stone”), from ????? (xurón, “razor”), from ??? (xú?, “to scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *ksunyo-.
Noun
scruple (plural scruples)
- (obsolete) A weight of 1/288 of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, in England about 1.3 grams (symbol: ?).
- (obsolete, by extension) A very small quantity; a particle.
- (obsolete) A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
- Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience.
- A Hebrew unit of time equal to ?1080 hour.
Verb
scruple (third-person singular simple present scruples, present participle scrupling, simple past and past participle scrupled)
- (intransitive) To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.
- (intransitive) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
- (transitive) To regard with suspicion; to question.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To question the truth of (a fact, etc.); to doubt; to hesitate to believe, to question.
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