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Scruple meaning
Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm. | A weight of ¹⁄₂₈₈ of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈). | A Hebrew unit of time equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour.
Example sentences (6)
He immediately added, ominously, “Neither ought a man to make scruple of entering and penetrating into these holes and comers, when the inquisition of truth is bis sole object”.
And no idea of perverse wickedness can be framed, which those terrified devotees do not readily, without scruple, apply to their deity.
He had, moreover, had no part in the divorce of Catherine of Aragon or in the humiliation of Mary during Henry's reign, and he made no scruple about conforming to the Catholic reaction.
Hence it is that what names theirs carried, ours do the like, and the Fathers make no scruple at it—no more need we.
In 1680 he was elected president of the society, but declined the honour from a scruple about oaths.
Where, however, the rigorous exposition of laws worked hardship on the masses, he did not scruple to modify the decisions of his colleagues for the benefit of the community (Shabbat 134b; Yer.