Scruple: alternatives and connections

Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

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See 1st Frith.

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A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

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To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer…

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To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.

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A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

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Beginning; commencement.

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The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not w…

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To give or grant amiss.

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To give or grant amiss.

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of Misgive

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of Misgive

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Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.

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Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.

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A drachma.

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A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma…

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A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 g…

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See Groan.

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of Misgive

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Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.

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