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English Dictionary: scrupled by the DICT Development Group
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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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