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Definition of: scruple

(skroomacrpəl) noun
1. Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty; reluctance arising from conscientious disapproval.
2. An apothecaries' weight of twenty grains, or 1.295 grams (symbol: image).
3. A minute quantity.
4. An ancient Roman coin.
v.t. & v.i. ·pled, ·pling
To have scruples (about); hesitate (doing) from considerations of right or expediency.
[<OF scrupule <L scrupulus, dim. of scrupus a sharp stone]

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