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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.