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scrupled


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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  --Fuller. 
 
  Men  scruple  at  the  lawfulness  of  a  set  form  of  divine 
  worship.  --South. 




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